Top Notch at Aoi

[Alex A]

Love this, never thought i would ever see a Japanese dealer use the term "Top Notch"

 

I thought it was just a NW of England thing 

 

"Our company categorizes swords based on their craftsmanship as top-notch, excellent, high-quality, and standard. This sword is classified as an excellent work."

 

 

[Gakusee]

23 minutes ago, Alex A said:

Love this, never thought i would ever see a Japanese dealer use the term "Top Notch"

 

I thought it was just a NW of England thing 

 

"Our company categorizes swords based on their craftsmanship as top-notch, excellent, high-quality, and standard. This sword is classified as an excellent work."

 

 

Yes, that is funny. Have not heard top-notch for a while.... I guess he has switched from his own arbitrary use of saijo saku, jojo saku jo saku etc.

Importantly, his use of saijo is different from the Fujishiro use. 

[francois2605]

The quality of some of their translations dramatically improved recently. I immediately thought that someone had used ChatGPT . My guess it that "top notch" comes from ChatGPT rather than Tsuruta-san.

[Alex A]

Agree Francois about recent improvements, don't know the reason but have noticed.

 

Perhaps your right.

[Surfson]

Probably a translation of "ichiban"