thank you for waiting; sorry to have kept you waiting
How do you do?; I am glad to meet you
letter left behind by someone who has departed; farewell letter
detective bureau; detective agency; investigation firm
chief; head (of an office, of a laboratory)
cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull
right?; isn't it?; hey; say; you know; you see; will you?
as expected; sure enough; after all (is said and done); in the end; too; also
pension (Western-style boardinghouse)
to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)
Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; politeness marker
towards (a destination); for the purpose of; with the goal of; targeting (a group, a demographic)
in that manner; like that
to do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
while; even though; despite
to bow; to bow one's head; to apologize; to apologise; to bow to; to yield to
snowy mountain; permanently snow-covered mountain; pile of snow; Himalayas
inside; interior; among; within; middle; center; during
whole; all; general; gross; entire; overall
white hair; grey hair; gray hair
to shine; to glow; to look attractive; to look nice; to be set off (by)
yuki-onna (spirit in Japanese folklore); snow woman
like; similar to; as with; in the same way
to be finished; to be completed; to be done
to wear glasses; to put on glasses
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
or; either ... or; maybe; perhaps; some ... and others ...; sometimes ... and at other times ...
the person in question; the person themselves; said person
consciousness; becoming aware (of); awareness; mano-vijnana (mental consciousness, cognizer of sensory information)
endorsing and questioning the preceding statement; lamenting reflections on the preceding statement
white; innocence; innocent person; blank space; white go stone; white dragon tile; skewered grilled pig intestine
unity; consolidation; uniformity; unification; compatible
soft (and fluffy) (e.g. bed, bread, baked potato); (arch.) absent-mindedly
muffler; scarf; comforter; muffler (for a vehicle exhaust); silencer
system; lineage; corollary; system (range of strata that correspond to a particular time period); (taxonomical) series
one color; one colour; one article; same tendency; everyone being caught up in the same thing
red; red color (colour); red-colored; red; communism; the left
to be conspicuous; to stand out
actually; in fact; as a matter of fact