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Yama Zatdaw
Yama Zatdaw (ရာမဇာတ်တော်) is the Burmese version of the Ramayana, treated as a Jataka story of Theravada Buddhism and regarded as Myanmar's unofficial national epic, with Rama known as Yama and Sita as Thida.
Yamato Monogatari
Yamato Monogatari (大和物語, Tales of Yamato) is a mid-Heian Japanese uta-monogatari of 173 sections built around about 300 waka poems, compiled around 951 and a major work of the genre.
Yan Ge Xing
Yan Ge Xing (燕歌行) is a pair of yuefu poems by Cao Pi of Cao Wei, considered the first mature seven-character poems in Chinese literature.
Yang Zhou Man
Yang Zhou Man (扬州慢, "Slow Tune of Yangzhou") is a ci tune with words and melody composed by Southern Song poet Jiang Kui in 1176, mourning Yangzhou after Jin raids.
Yangchun Collection
The Yangchun Collection (Yangchun ji, 陽春集) is a collection of ci lyrics by the Southern Tang poet and chancellor Feng Yansi, compiled by Chen Shixiu in 1058.
Yashodhara
Yashodhara (यशोधरा) is a 1932 Hindi narrative poem by Maithili Sharan Gupt, the Rashtrakavi, retelling the Buddha's renunciation from the viewpoint of his abandoned wife Yashodhara.
Yashodhara Charite
Yashodhara Charite (ಯಶೋಧರ ಚರಿತೆ) is a Kannada Jain narrative poem composed by the poet Janna in 1209, telling how a king, his mother, and his wife suffer violent rebirths.
Yayati
Yayati (ययाति, Yayati) is a lunar-dynasty emperor of the Mahabharata's Adi Parva, cursed with old age by Shukra; his son Puru took it in exchange, and Yayati's sons Yadu and Puru founded the Yadava and Kuru lines.
Yedi Güzel Adam
Yedi Güzel Adam ('Seven Beautiful Men') is a long poem and 1973 book by Turkish poet Cahit Zarifoğlu, whose title later named the circle of seven writers it portrays.
Yi Jian Mei: Boat Crossing Wujiang
"Yi Jian Mei: Boat Crossing Wujiang" (一剪梅·舟过吴江) is a ci poem by Southern Song poet Jiang Jie, written after his boat passed through Wujiang county near Lake Tai.
Yinbingshi Shihua
Yinbingshi Shihua (饮冰室诗话, "Remarks on Poetry from the Ice-Drinker's Studio") is a work of Chinese poetry criticism by Liang Qichao, serialized from 1902 to 1907.
Yingkui Lüsui
Yingkui Lüsui (瀛奎律髓) is a 49-juan anthology of Tang and Song five- and seven-character regulated verse compiled by Fang Hui and first printed in 1282.
Yishan Ji
Yishan Ji (遺山集), also known as Yuan Haowen Ji, is the collected works of Jin dynasty poet Yuan Haowen, in forty juan of poetry and prose.
Ynglingatal
Ynglingatal is a skaldic poem in Old Norse attributed to the Norwegian skald Þjóðólfr ór Hvini, listing 27 generations of Yngling kings and how each died.
Yogavasishtha
Yogavasishtha (योगवासिष्ठ), also known as the Mokṣopāya or Mahārāmāyaṇa, is a large Sanskrit philosophical poem in which the sage Vasiṣṭha teaches the young prince Rāma about non-duality, the illusory nature of the world, and liberation.
Yonghuai
Yonghuai (咏怀, "singing of inner feelings") is a Chinese poetic genre named for the 82 five-character poems Wei-dynasty poet Ruan Ji (210–263) wrote in veiled protest under Sima rule.
Yongyule: Lantern Festival
Yongyule: Lantern Festival (永遇乐·元宵), known by its first line "Luori rong jin," is a ci poem by Li Qingzhao contrasting Lantern Festivals before and after the Northern Song's fall.
Yongyule: Recalling the Past at Beigu Pavilion
Yongyule: Recalling the Past at Beigu Pavilion (永遇乐·京口北固亭怀古) is a 1205 ci poem by the Southern Song poet Xin Qiji, written at Beigu Pavilion in Zhenjiang.
Yotzer
Yotzer (Hebrew: יוצר, "He creates") is a genre of Hebrew liturgical poetry, or piyyut, embellishing the blessings around the Shema, named for the blessing "Yotzer Or."
Ysengrimus
Ysengrimus is a Latin beast epic of more than 6,500 lines written at Ghent around 1148 to 1152, the earliest complete medieval beast epic and the debut of Reynard the Fox.
Yu Jia Ao: Dream of the Sea
Yu Jia Ao: Dream of the Sea is a Song-dynasty ci lyric by Li Qingzhao, describing a dream voyage by sea to the Lord of Heaven.
Yu Jia Ao: Frontier Song
Yu Jia Ao: Frontier Song (渔家傲·秋思) is a ci poem on frontier life by Fan Zhongyan, written between 1040 and 1043 while defending China's northwest against the Xia.
Yu Lin Ling: Cold Cicadas
Yu Lin Ling: Cold Cicadas (雨霖铃·寒蝉, also "Autumn Parting") is a Song ci lyric on parting by Liu Yong, known for the line "willow bank, dawn breeze, waning moon."
Yuan Ge Xing
Yuan Ge Xing (怨歌行), the "Round Fan Poem" or "Yuan Shi", is a Han dynasty yuefu poem attributed to Ban Jieyu, likening an autumn-discarded fan to an abandoned woman.
Yuan Phai
Yuan Phai, also known as Lilit Yuan Phai, is a Thai historical epic poem praising King Borommatrailokanat of Ayutthaya for his victory over Lan Na around 1475.
Yuan Qu Xuan
Yuan Qu Xuan (元曲选), also known as Yuanren Baizhong Qu, is an anthology of 100 Yuan zaju plays compiled by the late Ming editor Zang Maoxun and printed in 1615–1616.
Yuanyuan Qu
Yuanyuan Qu (圓圓曲, The Song of Yuanyuan) is a long narrative poem by the early Qing poet Wu Weiye about the courtesan Chen Yuanyuan and the Ming general Wu Sangui.
Yudhishthira (युधिष्ठिर)
Yudhishthira (युधिष्ठिर), Dharmaraja, eldest Pandava son of the god Dharma in the Mahabharata; lost kingdom, brothers, and Draupadi in Shakuni's dice game, endured exile, the Yaksha Prashna, and ruled after Kurukshetra.
Yuefu poetry
Yuefu poetry (乐府诗, "Music Bureau poems") is a Chinese poetic genre named after the Han dynasty Music Bureau, running from Han folk song through Six Dynasties imitation to the Tang new yuefu.
Yuefu Yaci
Yuefu Yaci (乐府雅词) is a Song-dynasty anthology of ci lyrics compiled by Zeng Zao and completed in 1146, the earliest surviving anthology of Song lyrics.