white hair; grey hair; gray hair
white paper; flyleaf; blank paper; clean slate; lack of prior opinion, positions, etc.; scratch
barefaced (e.g. lie); transparent; with feigned ignorance; pretending not to know; pure white; very clear
plain wood; unfinished woodwork
to whiten; to grow light (esp. at dawn); to cool (of a mood); to be dampened (of enthusiasm); (arch.) to decline; (arch.) to weaken; (arch.) to lose its tone (of a musical instrument)
white flag; truce flag; surrender flag
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)
white plum blossoms; white Japanese apricot; white-blossomed plum
polished rice; (uncooked) white rice
white; unseasoned; undyed; very much; precisely; playing dumb
heron with all-white plumage (incl. egrets); white heron
white background; blank; (arch.) female virgin
growing light (e.g. at dawn); pale; appearing dumb; talking in an obvious way
Japanese white birch (Betula platyphylla var. japonica)
white plaster wall; tofu; bean curd
(plain) hot water; boiled water
whitecaps; white-crested waves; thief
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
white-coloured skin; vitiligo; leucoderma; leukoderma
stopping a sword stroke between one's bare hands
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
salad dressed with tofu, white sesame, and white miso
seafood grilled without seasoning; unglazed ceramic ware
white bush clover; Lysimachia fortunei (species of loosestrife)
court of law in the Edo period, in which the parties sat on white sand
unflavored rice porridge; rice porridge made of only white rice and water
hair dye (for graying hair)
to put a damper on proceedings (at a meeting, party, etc.)
refined rice flour; rice flour for dumplings
to play dumb; to feign ignorance; to act innocent
being fast asleep (and totally unaware of what is going on around one); know-it-all manner
white spot; bright spot; facula; vitiligo; leukoderma
woman who puts thick white powder on her neck; low class prostitute
Shiranami Gonin Otoko (common name for the play Aoto Zōshi Hana no Nishiki-e)
(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)
flea-bitten gray (horse coat color); flea-bitten grey
white vegetables or fish simmered without soy sauce
white paper lantern used at funerals
dried bamboo; white bamboo
tale featuring robbers; kabuki play featuring robbers
white-flowered camellia (Camellia japonica var.)
ringworm (of the scalp); tinea capitis
Japanese wood poppy (Glaucidium palmatum)
to polish (rice); to refine; to purify
generation of young people (esp. of the 1970s) apathetic about social issues
binding of plates with white laces (in traditional suits of armor)
boiled whitebait; young sardines boiled in brine
fishing for young anchovy, sardines, etc.
shrill voice; unaccompanied part of the Heike Monogatari chanting; part of an unaccompanied poem (in noh)
Shiraume Gakuen University
stairs at the front of a noh stage, which go over the white gravel separating the audience from the stage
pale; faded; discolored; straw-colored; light brown
tea made from twigs of high-quality tea plants (esp. gyokuro); high-grade kukicha (esp. from gyokuro)
steamed unflavoured glutinous rice; mochi rice
wake (of a ship); going missing without a trace
something indistinguishable or indistinct (like an egret in the snow)
light chestnut (horse coat color)
European silver birch (Betula pendula); European white birch
Veitch's silver fir (Abies veitchii)
Carex alopecuroides var. chlorostachya (species of sedge)
Veitch's silver fir (Abies veitchii)
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)
Parnassia foliosa (species of flowering herb)
collector urchin (Tripneustes gratilla)
vitiligo; leucoderma; leukoderma
Shirasawa Station (Kagoshima)