A group of onmitsu, government-employed undercover agents, established by the 8th Tokugawa shogun, Tokugawa Yoshimune (1684–1751). Sometimes described as ninja.

beautiful

(archaic) beautiful

first, number one / game, round

most, -est, -most

(Kagoshima, dialect) most / (Kagoshima, dialect) first

a (single) pair, couple, brace (male-female pair of animals) / (gagaku, bugaku, dance) a style of performance consisting of pairs of left and right dances

a flower / Short for 生け花 (ikebana): flower arrangement / Short for 花札 (hanafuda): Japanese playing cards / the best days of one's life / the best thing / essence

(chiefly women's speech) first person singular pronoun: I, me

一番: number one, most, -est