蝦

Word usually written using kana alone

frog

かわず／カワズ only

kajika frog (Buergeria buergeri)

prawn; shrimp; lobster

Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands)

Edo-period realm of the Ainu (as opposed to the Japanese) comprising most of Hokkaido

Hokkaido squirrel (subspecies of red squirrel, Sciurus vulgaris orientis)

Hokkaido sika (Cervus nippon yesoensis); Yezo sika

Hokkaido wolf (Canis lupus hattai, extinct)

Vitis ficifolia (species of grapevine)

Hokkaido brown bear (Ursus arctos yesoensis)

mantis shrimp (any marine crustacean of order Stomatopoda, esp. the species Oratosquilla oratoria); mantis crab; squilla

sargent cherry (Prunus sargentii)

China aster (Callistephus chinensis); Chinese aster; annual aster

Siberian ginseng (Eleutherococcus senticosus); eleuthero; ciwujia

Medicine

ranula

lemon day-lily (Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus, formerly Hemerocallis flava); lemon lily; yellow day-lily

Pteromys volans orii (subspecies of the Siberian flying squirrel, endemic to Hokkaido)

Viola eizanensis (flower in the violet family)

Yezo spruce (Picea jezoensis); Jezo spruce

Lyristes japonicus (species of cicada)

hazel grouse (Bonasa bonasia)

chives (Allium schoenoprasum var. schoenoprasum)

being bent (with age); being stooped over

Christmas cactus; crab cactus

Tamias sibiricus lineatus (subspecies of Siberian chipmunk native to Hokkaido)

Japanese sable (subspecies of sable native to Hokkaido, Martes zibellina brachyura)