Background
Sonosuke Sato was born on December 3, 1890 in Kanagawa, Japan.
惣之助 佐藤
Sonosuke Sato was born on December 3, 1890 in Kanagawa, Japan.
He studied at the Tokyo Foreign Language School.
After learning haiku under Koroku Sato, he turned to writing Western style poetry. His poem "The Helmet of Justice" (1916) made him a poet popular among the masses.