piece(s) of firewood (esp. chopped or split from logs), kindling (twigs, branches...

wood and charcoal, fuel

fuel and water, firewood and water, gathering firewood and drawing water...

hatchet, axe, wood-chopping...

noh theater performed at night by a fire

wood basket, firewood bucket, log holder

firewood gathering

hatchet, axe, wood-chopping...

kindling burned in shrines and temples, special kindling used in samurai families during the Edo period for the 15th of the first month and painted with 12 brush strokes (13 on a lucky year), kindling offered by officials to the imperial court during the ritsuryō period

wood basket, firewood bucket, log holder

brushwood and firewood

woodshed

wood-burning stove, wood stove

menial services (e.g. kitchen work), serving one's master unsparingly

Order for the Provision of Firewood and Water (1842)

going through thick and thin to attain one's objective, enduring unspeakable hardships for the sake of vengeance

having one's good intentions backfire dangerously, causing harm when trying to prevent it, trying to put out a fire while carrying kindling