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crack

tortoise

Japanese pond turtle (Mauremys japonica)

forked viburnum (Viburnum furcatum)

Genki era (1570.4.23-1573.7.28)

barnacle

young turtle (tortoise)

tortoise-shaped scrubbing brush (from company name)

Bunki era (1501.2.29-1504.2.30)

yellow pond turtle (Mauremys mutica)

Russian tortoise (Agrionemys horsfieldii)

leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)

Chinese soft-shelled turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis)

any turtle of the genus Mauremys (esp. the Japanese pond turtle, Mauremys japonica)

loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta)

Kameda College of Health Sciences

green turtle (Chelonia mydas)

East Pacific green turtle (Chelonia mydas agassizii)

mysterious turtle (an omen of good luck)

scarab beetle

enjoying a long life is a matter for congratulation

dung beetle

bulbus glandis

the older, the wiser

slow and steady pace

Galápagos tortoise (Geochelone nigra)

giant tortoise

voyeur

tortoiseshell pattern

glans (esp. glans penis)

European tortoise

Museo Marugame Hirai

Kameda Seika Company

flower bug

hexagonal pattern

Japanese cockchafer (Melolontha japonica)

tortoise shell

Ryukyu black-breasted leaf turtle (Geoemyda japonica)

dor beetle (of family Geotrupidae)

olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea)

clitoral glans

balanitis

things that do not exist

things that do not exist

Chinese box turtle (Cuora flavomarginata)

pond slider (Trachemys scripta)

tying up (e.g. a prisoner) with a criss-cross rope so that it forms a lozenge pattern

Hōki era (770.10.1-781.1.1)

unlikely event

unlikely event

kamebushi

baby spotted turtle

corona glandis (penis)

obtaining the respective numbers of cranes and tortoises from the total of their heads and legs

shield bug

turtle scooping (festival game)

slow runner

homely woman (esp. one with a small low nose, high flat forehead, and bulging cheeks)

replying to an email or online discussion after a long delay

balanoposthitis

Mary River turtle (Elusor macrurus)

white plaster bun-shaped mound (used to support base stones, etc.)

some people are never satisfied

oracle bone script

Riptortus pedestris (species of broad-headed bug)

box turtle

Chinese soft-shelled turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis)

soba in soup with slices of boiled fish paste, shiitake mushrooms, greens, seaweed, etc.

coreid bug

mysterious turtle (an omen of good luck)

tortoise shell bondage

blind turtle

crane and tortoise (symbol of longevity, artistic motif)

glans penis

snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina)

Chinese pond turtle (Chinemys reevesii)

pattern

tortoiseshell bracket (punctuation mark)

high-quality glossy white habutai silk

tortoiseshell

high-quality glossy white habutai silk

old turtle with seaweed growing on its back

knock on wood

tortoise-shell divination

African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys sulcata)

alligator snapping turtle (Macroclemys temminckii)

cockatiel (Nymphicus hollandicus)