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Toyohiko Satoh, born 佐藤豊彦 on November 4, 1943 in Fukuyama, Hiroshima, Japan, is a Japanese lutenist. He studied music history and guitar at Rikkyo University in Tokyo, giving his first guitar recital in 1965. In 1968, Satoh moved to Europe to study lute with Eugen Müller-Dombois at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland. His career took off when he recorded the first LP devoted entirely to the solo Baroque lute in 1970. He collaborated with notable artists such as Gustav Leonhardt and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. In 1973, he became a professor at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, Netherlands, holding this position until 2004.