Korin Japanese Trading Company provides expensive

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from Japan. In addition to their own brand, they sell Masamoto, Misono, Glestain, and Suisin, at prices from under $50 to over $3,000. Founded in 1982 by

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knife maker Chiharu Sugai and waitress Saori Kawano as a

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r to the food service industry, Korin began selling to the public in 2001 and has become popular among

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s as well as serious cooks and collectors of fine

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. Misono knives are used in the kitchen at the

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, the residence of the

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in Washington, D.C.

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