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Sanshiro may refer to:
- Plawres Sanshiro, popular anime series aired in 1983 in Japan, Hong Kong, the Middle East and Greece and Algeria
- Sanshiro Sugata, the directorial debut of the Oscar-winning Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa
- Sanshiro Sugata Part II, 1945 film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa.
- Sanshiro Takagi (born 1975), Japanese professional wrestler
- Segata Sanshiro, fictional character created by Sega to advertise the Sega Saturn in Japan between 1997 and 1998
- Sanshirō (novel), a novel written in 1908 by Natsume Sōseki, about a young man coming of age in the late Meiji Period
is a full-length novel by the Japanese writer Natsume Sōseki. The novel was originally published as a serialized work in the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun from September 1 through December 29 of 1908. The Shunyōdō Shoten Company published it in book form in May 1909. The book form is divided into 13 chapters. Sanshirō is the first in a trilogy of thematically related novels, along with subsequent works And Then and The Gate.
The novel describes the experiences of Sanshirō Ogawa, a young man from the Kyushu countryside of southern Japan, as he arrives at the University Tokyo and becomes acquainted with his new surroundings, fellow students, researchers, and professors. It also depicts his interaction with several young ladies and his first taste of romantic love. Through Sanshirō and those around him, the novel presents extensive observations of and commentary on the Meiji-era Japanese society of its time.
Sanshirō is Sōseki's only coming-of-age novel. It has been translated into English by Jay Rubin.