was a professional Go

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. Sato was a 9 dan who played in the

Kansai Ki-in The Kansai Ki-in (), i.e., Kansai Go Association, is an organizational body for the game of Go in Japan, which was founded by Hashimoto Utaro in 1950. Though it is not as large as its chief rival, the Nihon Ki-in, it also issues diplomas to stron ...

. He had many pupils, including

Yuki Satoshi is a Japanese professional Go player. Biography Yuki won the NHK Cup in 2010 for the second time in a row, becoming the third player after Eio Sakata and Norimoto Yoda to do such. He was selected as a representative of the Japanese tea ...

, Izumo Tetsuya, Maeda Ryo, and Furuya Yutaka. Sato became a 9 dan in 1963

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1924 births 2004 deaths Japanese Go players {{Japan-Go-bio-stub