tobacco container (esp. a tobacco pouch)
lynx (esp. the Eurasian lynx, Lynx lynx)
female prisoner; female convict
cake or snack served with tea
pechka; Russian oven; Russian stove
on hand; readily available
traditional winter hunters in Tōhoku; matagi
good; wonderful; splendid; understood; got it; OK
rock hard; stiff and unyielding (personality); clangor
toil; drudgery; penal servitude; imprisonment (with hard labour)
unicycle; monocycle; wheelbarrow
hammer; hopeless swimmer; complete beginner at swimming; someone who sinks like a stone
Karafuto (Japanese name for Sakhalin)
toe; toe (of a golf club)
exile; banishment; deportation
blizzard; furious snowstorm
to inflict; to impose (a fine, etc.)
Russo-Japanese War (1904-5)
lye; harsh taste; bitter taste; scum (on a soup, broth etc.); (excessive) self-assertiveness; strong individuality
urine; piss; pee; breaking a contract
to be overproduced; to be incredibly good (e.g. for a child); to go much better than expected; to be too good to be true (of a story, etc.)
to settle down; to stay (for good); to stay long; to stay on
wildcat (European wildcat, Iriomote cat, Tsushima cat, etc.); wild cat; stray cat
not necessarily so; is not always true
nine (in mekuri karuta); oicho-kabu (traditional Japanese gambling card game)
extraordinarily; astonishingly; extremely; terribly; unreasonably; absurdly
habitual criminal; recidivist; recidivism; habitual criminal activity
dragon (esp. a Chinese dragon); naga; semi-divine human-cobra chimera in Hindu and Buddhist mythology