Japanese crossword «At the broken trough»

Not sure what he is so down about with that giant hotdog by his side. He must really strongly desire some mustard =)

Sorry?

HAHAHAHAHA! giant hotdog!
Suohhen, you crack me up!

Guessing this is a translation error.
My russian is quite rusty, but the best guess I have is that that's a guy in winter clothing holding a piece of rain gutter in his hand.
But that's just a guess

Not sure about the thing next to them, but that is almost definitely a female with a dress and headscarf (in similar style to a Tichel)

I was very curious, so I Googled the title of the puzzle. This is from a Russian poem, "The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish." This is the old woman of the story sitting by her broken trough (place for water or food). Although I do prefer the giant hot dog! Maybe that was one of her wishes the poem omitted. XD

Once the connection with the poem is made, it really is an outstanding pix. Esoteric, but outstanding.

Nothing but blobs to my eye until I read Urpset315's comment, and it immediately all made sense.

Very nice!! And it's obviously a woman in long black skirt! I had to laugh about the hotdog, geniusly!

Thanks for the poem reference. I had to really scale this down to even begin to see what it was.

Much clearer in the thumbnail! The woman is quite effectively portrayed.

:-) I'm with the hot dog group...

unique, thanks