log; dace (Tribolodon hakonensis)
hut; cabin; small theatre (theater); temporary playhouse; one's own house
occasionally; once in a while; seldom; casually; unexpectedly; accidentally
hunting; shooting; game; quarry
body; group; party; gang; troupe; troop
how (beautiful, etc.); what a ...; nothing worth mentioning; nothing special; of what name
ass; arse; rear; end; acupuncture point; hole
reclaimed land; cleared land; area opened for development
the four cardinal directions; north, east, south and west; surroundings; many countries; the whole world; all around; here and there
company; friendship; association; society; acquaintance
on the contrary; far from it; if anything; in fact; instead
sickle; leading question; trick question; sickle-and-chain (weapon); spear with curved cross-blades; gooseneck tenon and mortise joint; (arch.) noisiness
resolution; vote; decision
on and after; as from; hereafter; thereafter; since
settlement; village; community; (bacterial) colony
official name; formal name
a long way off; matter for the future; not going to happen anytime soon
to insert; to put between; to tuck (e.g. fabric into a gap)
bamboo grass; generally smaller species of running bamboo that do not shed their sheaths (e.g. Sasa spp.)
conifer; needle-leaved tree
root (of a plant); root (of a tooth, hair, etc.); center (of a pimple, etc.); root (of all evil, etc.); source; one's true nature
Emishi; historical term for non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan; Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands)
field mouse; meadow mouse
size; large and small (sizes); various sizes; daishō (matched pair of long and short swords); large and small drums; long months and short months; sic bo (Macao dice game)
fly (any insect of infraorder Muscomorpha); person of no worth; pisher; scrub
safety; security; safely; without incident; good health; inaction
to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to move house
winter; wintertime; winter term
way of taking (e.g. photographs); manner of taking; how to take
freezing (e.g. water); freezing (prices, wages, assets, etc.); moratorium; suspension (e.g. investment)
hibernation; winter sleep; torpor
to drive away; to clear; to scatter; to disperse
wind direction; situation; way things are going; mood; temper
direction; orientation; bearing; course (e.g. of action)
to cut down; to chop down; to fell
knack; skill; bone; skeleton; cremated remains (esp. the bones); ashes
daughter; girl (i.e. a young, unmarried woman)
hard struggle; strenuous effort