淡

fresh water (i.e. not salt water)

uninterested

light (flavor, color, etc.)

cool

light and shade

freshwater fish

desalination

desalination plant

faint moon

desalination

freshwater

simple

freshwater diving

not letting oneself puffed up by one's success

friendships between wise men are plain and hence rock solid

light flavor

var. of knot often used to tie mizu-hiki

cold-hearted

Henon bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra var. henonis)

plain

light blue

Awaji (former province located on Awaji Island in present-day Hyōgo Prefecture)

light color

freshwater lake

wash drawing

vegetables not high in beta-carotene

Awaji Special Needs School (older name style)

grayscale image

evening brown butterfly (Melanitis leda)

light green

pale yellow

Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake (1995)

lilac (colour)

light snow

light colouring

fresh-water algae

freshwater lake

pink

pale yellow

pistachio (green)

indifferent to worldly gain

elegant simplicity

light brown

pale Indian ink

light

rising above the trivia of life and remaining calm and selfless

rising above the trivia of life and remaining calm and selfless

smooth and refreshing (of sake)

pink

aesthetic sense in Japanese art emphasising quiet simplicity and subdued refinement

disinterested