Smio Satou

  • Smio Satou Smooth Volcano w/ Bamboo Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked

    $2,000.00

    It cannot be overstated just how much of today’s high-grade, handmade Japanese pipes begins with just three men: Kyoichiro Tsuge (1911-2010), Kazuhiro Fukuda, and Smio Satou (1944-2023). It was Tsuge who founded the Tsuge Pipe Company in 1936. It was Fukuda and Satou, however, who were, amidst the explosion in popularity of Scandinavian pipes in…

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    Smio Satou Sandblasted Bent Dublin Estate Briar Pipe

    While Smio Satou was not the first pipe-maker in his family, he is certainly the most renowned. In fact, Satou is not only one of the most accomplished pipe makers in Japan, but in the entire world. He began his career at Tsuge, and in the 1970s he and Kazuhiro Fukuda traveled to Denmark to…

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