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Japanese buckthorn (Rhamnus japonica var. decipiens)

Chinese fancy mouse (usu. all-white with red eyes)

Asian house shrew (Suncus murinus)

rat guard (device placed on storehouse pillars, mooring ropes, pipes, etc. to block the passage of rats)

guinea pig (any of five guinea pig species, esp. Cavia porcellus)

Japanese flying squirrel (Pteromys momonga); small Japanese flying squirrel; Japanese dwarf flying squirrel

reddish grey (colour)

harvest mouse (Mus minutus)

being unable to make up one's mind; sitting on the fence

Food, cooking

dried trepang; dried sea slug; dried sea cucumber

black rat (Rattus rattus); roof rat

being unable to make up one's mind; sitting on the fence

person who steals money from the workplace; embezzler; untrustworthy person

black rat; roof rat

field mouse

edible dormouse (Glis glis); fat dormouse

salted entrails of a sea cucumber; salted entrails of a trepang

boiled pine pitch and oil (traditionally used as a glue in archery, etc.)

Hawker's least shrew (Sorex minutissimus hawkeri)

sea squirt; ascidian

Word usually written using kana alone

Japanese grass vole (Microtus montebelli)

any rodent of subfamily Arvicolinae (incl. voles, lemmings and muskrats)

jerboa (any rodent of family Dipodidae)

field mouse; meadow mouse

common squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus)

Japanese squirrel (Sciurus lis)