Smio Satou: Urushi Renaissance

 

(Smokingpipes.com) While Smio Satou trained in the classical Danish hand made pipe tradition, he has very much charted his own path as a pipe maker over the past couple of decades. He went, with Fukuda, who still makes Tsuge Ikebana pipes, to Denmark on two occasions in the 1970s and worked at Tsuge in the 1970s and 1980s, but in the late 1990s, he started doing something no one else did, or indeed does, with pipes. He combined modern Danish-style pipe making methods with traditional urushi Japanese lacquer-work. Continued