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Sasaki and Miyano (佐々木と宮野)

Sasaki and Miyano (佐々木と宮野) is Shou Harusono's ongoing boys' love manga on pixiv Comic since 2016, 11 volumes, about tough upperclassman Sasaki and BL-loving fudanshi Miyano; adapted into a 2022 TV anime and 2023 Graduation film.

Sasaki Hideyoshi

Sasaki Hideyoshi (佐々木秀義) was a samurai commander of the late Heian period who headed the Sasaki clan of Ōmi Province, born in 1112 and killed in battle in 1184.

Sasaki Kojirō (佐々木小次郎)

Sasaki Kojirō (佐々木小次郎), also called Ganryū, was an early Edo Japanese swordsman killed by Miyamoto Musashi on Ganryū-jima on 13 April 1612; known for the long sword Monohoshi-zao and the Tsubame-gaeshi technique, though his biography is largely legend.

Sasaki Moritsuna

Sasaki Moritsuna (佐々木盛綱), also known as Kaji Moritsuna, was a Japanese warrior who served Minamoto no Yoritomo and crossed the sea on horseback at the Battle of Fujito in 1184.

Sasamegoto

Sasamegoto (ささめごと, "Murmured Conversations") is a two-volume Japanese treatise on linked poetry (renga) and waka written by the poet-monk Shinkei in 1463–1464, ranking with Zeami's works as medieval Japan's most important poetic criticism.

Sasan grants of Mewar

Sasan grants of Mewar (सासन) were perpetual tax-free land grants in the Rajasthani princely states, given to charans, bhats, ascetics, and scholars until land reforms in the mid-twentieth century.

Sasan Mokhtari

Sasan Mokhtari is the founder, president, and CEO of Open Access Technology International (OATI), a Minneapolis energy software company he founded in 1995, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.

Oct 15, 2026

Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project

The Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project (Sasan UMPP) is a 3,960 MW coal-fired power station at Sasan in Singrauli district, Madhya Pradesh, India, developed by Reliance Power.

Sasanian Armenia

Sasanian Armenia (ارمنستان ساسانی) was the part of Armenia under Sasanian Persian rule, first a vassal kingdom and, from 428, a marzpanate governed by a marzban.

Sasanian army

The Sasanian army (سپاه, spah) was the standing military force of the Sasanian Empire, founded by Ardashir I and serving from 224 to the mid-seventh century.

Sasanian capture of Jerusalem (614)

The Sasanian capture of Jerusalem (فتح اورشلیم به دست ایرانیان) was the taking of Byzantine Jerusalem in 614 by Persian forces under Shahrbaraz, serving Khosrow II.

Sasanian capture of the Kushano-Sasanian territories

The Sasanian capture of the Kushano-Sasanian territories was the staged third-century conquest of the Kushan lands north of the Hindu Kush by Ardashir I and Shapur I, afterward ruled by the Kushanshahs.

Sasanian coinage reform of Khosrow I

The Sasanian coinage reform of Khosrow I standardized silver drachms of about 4.25 g, dated by regnal year and signed by mint, during his reign from 531 to 579.

Sep 19, 2026

Sasanian conquest of Yemen

The Sasanian conquest of Yemen, also called the Persian conquest of Himyar, was an expedition sent by Khosrow I around 570 that ended Aksumite rule in Yemen.

Sasanian defense lines

The Sasanian defense lines were linear walls, canals, and fortifications built by the Sasanian Empire of Iran (224–651) against nomads from the north and Arab tribes.

Sasanian drachm

The Sasanian drachm (درهم ساسانی) was the dominant silver coin of the Sasanian Empire from 224 until the Arab conquests, showing the king's portrait and a Zoroastrian fire altar.

Sasanian dynasty

The Sasanian dynasty (ساسانیان) was the last Persian dynasty to rule Western Asia before Islam, founded by Ardashir I in 224 and ended by the Arab conquest in 651.

Sasanian Empire

Sasanian Empire (Eranshahr), Persian empire founded by Ardashir I in 224 CE after defeating the Parthians; ruled from Ctesiphon until 650 CE, rival of Rome, with Zoroastrianism as official religion.

Sep 24, 2026

Sasanian legal system

The Sasanian legal system (دادستان ساسانی) was the state legal order of Sasanian Iran from 224 to 651, with law rooted in Zoroastrian religion yet growing independent of theology.

Sasanian silk

Sasanian silk is the luxury silk woven in the Sasanian Empire of Iran (224-651 CE) from Chinese raw silk, famous for animal motifs in medallion borders.

Sasanian silverware

Sasanian silverware is the body of luxury silver and silver-gilt vessels made in Iran and nearby lands under the Sasanian dynasty (224–651), its most famous pieces showing the king hunting on horseback.

Sasanian stucco

Sasanian stucco, known in Persian as gač-borī (گچ‌بری), is gypsum plaster architectural decoration of the Sasanian Empire (224 to 651 CE) in Iran and Mesopotamia.

Sasanian tax reform of Khosrow I

The Sasanian tax reform of Khosrow I (اصلاح مالیاتی خسرو انوشیروان), planned under Kawad I, replaced crop shares with fixed land and poll taxes assessed by cadastral survey.

Sasanian textiles

Sasanian textiles are the woven luxury fabrics produced in, or modeled on the styles of, the Sasanian Persian empire (224–651 CE), best known through fragments found from Egypt to Japan.

Sep 24, 2026

Sasanian–Turkic war of 560s

The Sasanian–Turkic war of the 560s was the campaign in which Khosrow I of Persia and the Western Turk khagan Ishtami allied to destroy the Hephthalite Empire.

Sasanka's persecution of Buddhism and felling of the Bodhi tree

Sasanka's persecution of Buddhism (शशाङ्क का बौद्ध विरोध) refers to anti-Buddhist acts attributed to Sasanka, the Shaiva king of Gauda, including felling the Bodhi tree.

Oct 21, 2026

Sasanlimab

Sasanlimab (PF-06801591, proposed brand Zumrad) is Pfizer's subcutaneous anti-PD-1 IgG4 monoclonal antibody for bladder cancer; its phase 3 CREST trial met its EFS endpoint, but the EMA application was withdrawn in February 2026.