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Satarō Satō (佐藤 佐太郎 Satō Satarō; 13 November 1909 – 8 August 1987) was a Japanese tanka poet. Before World War II, he studied under the great tanka poet Mokichi Saitō and published in the important literary magazine Araragi. He later became recognized as one of the first important postwar tanka poets, participating in the annual poetry gathering at the Tokyo Imperial Palace, the Utakai Hajime, and helping to found the Modern Tanka Poets' Association. He was also an accomplished essayist, critic and calligrapher.