white hair; grey hair; gray hair
swan (Cygnus spp.); white-feathered bird
white paper; flyleaf; blank paper; clean slate; lack of prior opinion, positions, etc.; scratch
barefaced (e.g. lie); shameless; transparent; pure white; very clear
plain wood; unfinished woodwork
to grow light; to become white; to turn grey (gray)
white flag; truce flag; surrender flag
white plum blossoms; white Japanese apricot; white-blossomed plum
to be dampened (of the mood, interest, etc.); to be spoiled (e.g. of the atmosphere); to become subdued; to turn white; to fade (to white); to grow light (at dawn)
heron with all-white plumage (incl. egrets); white heron
polished rice; (uncooked) white rice
white background; blank; female virgin
growing light (e.g. at dawn); pale; appearing dumb; talking in an obvious way
Japanese white birch (Betula platyphylla var. japonica)
white; unseasoned; undyed; very much; precisely; playing dumb
white plaster wall; tofu; bean curd
whitecaps; white-crested waves; thief
(plain) hot water; boiled water
gray or silver haired (grey)
sobriety; soberness; sober face
white sandbar; white sandbank; area in a garden or entrance of a house laid with white sand or pebbles; gravel separating a noh stage from the audience; (arch.) court of law in the Edo period, in which the parties sat on white sand
to be selected (from among many people)
icefish (Salangidae spp., esp. the Japanese icefish, Salangichthys microdon); noodlefish; whitebait
grizzled; (hair) streaked with grey (gray)
to feign ignorance; to pretend to be ignorant of; to play innocent; to brazen it out
shirataki noodles; white noodles made from konjak starch, often used in sukiyaki; waterfall resembling a white sheet
whitebait; elver (young eel)
(arch.) dancing girl (end of the Heian period); prostitute; tempo in gagaku
white gem (esp. a pearl); rice flour dumpling; white-flowered camellia
to select someone (out of many people)
to fade; to discolour; to discolor
stopping a sword stroke between one's bare hands
white-coloured skin; vitiligo; leucoderma; leukoderma
stopping a sword stroke between one's bare hands
prematurely gray hair; prematurely grey hair
white charcoal; charcoal used for tea ceremony
glistening dew; "white dew" solar term (approx. September 8)
quercus myrsinifolia; bamboo Leaved Oak; quercus myrsinaefolia
white clay; white earth; kaolin; mortar
white bush clover; Lysimachia fortunei (species of loosestrife)
seafood grilled without seasoning; unglazed ceramic ware
salad dressed with tofu, white sesame, and white miso
hair dye (for graying hair)
unflavored rice porridge; rice porridge made of only white rice and water
to put a damper on proceedings (at a meeting, party, etc.)
being fast asleep (and totally unaware of what is going on around one); know-it-all manner
court of law in the Edo period, in which the parties sat on white sand
refined rice flour; rice flour for dumplings
white spot; bright spot; facula; vitiligo; leukoderma
woman who puts thick white powder on her neck; low class prostitute
(arch.) starched white uniform worn by menservants of government officials; something pasted with plain white paper (e.g. umbrella, lantern)
disenchantment; apathy; spoiled fun; turn-off
growing old together (as a couple); white hemp thread (as a betrothal gift, representing the hair of an old couple)
white vegetables or fish simmered without soy sauce
white paper lantern used at funerals
flea-bitten gray (horse coat color); flea-bitten grey
tale featuring robbers; kabuki play featuring robbers
white-flowered camellia (Camellia japonica var.)
amateur; layman; respectable woman (i.e. not a prostitute, hostess, geisha); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute
generation of young people (esp. of the 1970s) apathetic about social issues
to polish (rice); to refine; to purify
fishing for young anchovy, sardines, etc.
wake (of a ship); going missing without a trace
shrill voice; unaccompanied part of the Heike Monogatari chanting; part of an unaccompanied poem (in noh)
stairs at the front of a noh stage, which go over the white gravel separating the audience from the stage
steamed unflavoured glutinous rice; mochi rice
something indistinguishable or indistinct (like an egret in the snow)
light chestnut (horse coat color)
Veitch's silver fir (Abies veitchii)
Carex alopecuroides var. chlorostachya (species of sedge)
Veitch's silver fir (Abies veitchii)
ringworm (of the scalp); tinea capitis
shirasu (white pumiceous soil of southern Kyushu)
Eurasian collared dove (Streptopelia decaocto); collared dove
Maries' fir (Abies mariesii)
hoary marmot (Marmota caligata)
Japanese glass shrimp (Pasiphaea japonica)
collector urchin (Tripneustes gratilla)
vitiligo; leucoderma; leukoderma
Shirasawa Station (Kagoshima)