Ernest Mason Satow, English orientalist and diplomat (died 1929)

Ernest Mason Satow

British diplomat, scholar and Japanologist (1843–1929)

Sir Ernest Mason Satow, was a British diplomat, scholar and Japanologist. He is better known in Japan, where he was known as Satō Ainosuke , than in Britain or the other countries in which he served as a diplomat. He was a key figure in late 19th-century Anglo-Japanese relations.