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Sato Rintaro was born in 1839, Nagasaki, Japan.
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He was appointed by the Shogunate as an interpreter of English. He hobnobbed with Loyalist samurai of the Satsuma and Nagato (Choshu) clans. When Shogun Yoshinobu Tokugawa opened an English language school in Nijo Castle in Kyoto (1867), he was appointed a teacher. After the Meiji Restoration (1868), he served in the Kyoto Municipal Office. Founded the Umezu Paper Mill with a German named Lehman. He improved Nishijin brocade and Awata-yaki pottery and started exporting them.
