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Jian'an poetry
Jian'an poetry (建安诗歌) is Chinese poetry of the Jian'an era (196–220), centered on Cao Cao's court at Ye and counted among China's literary golden ages.
Jiang Cheng Zi: Dream of the Dead Wife
Jiang Cheng Zi: Dream of the Dead Wife (江城子·乙卯正月二十日夜记梦) is a Song dynasty ci lyric by Su Shi, written in 1075 to mourn his first wife, Wang Fu.
Jiang Cheng Zi: Hunting in Mizhou
Jiang Cheng Zi: Hunting in Mizhou (江城子·密州出猎) is a ci poem written by Su Shi in 1075 as prefect of Mizhou, Shandong, pioneering the bold haofang style.
Jianghu (江湖)
Jianghu (江湖), literally "rivers and lakes", is the Chinese concept of a social world outside official life, from Zhuangzi's hermits to the martial society of wuxia fiction by Jin Yong, also called gangho in Korean.
Jiannan Shigao
Jiannan Shigao (剑南诗稿), or Draft Poems of Jiannan, is the collected poetry of the Southern Song poet Lu You, compiled by his son in 85 juan and named for the Sichuan region he loved.
Jiaxuan Ci
The Collected Ci of Xin Qiji (稼轩词) gathers the ci lyrics of Southern Song poet Xin Qiji, more than 600 surviving, the principal monument of the haofang style.
Jibansmriti
Jibansmriti (জীবনস্মৃতি), translated as My Reminiscences, is a 1912 autobiographical memoir by Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore recounting the first 27 years of his life, a foundational text of Bengali life-writing.
Jidai shōsetsu
Jidai shōsetsu (時代小説), also called magemono or chanbara mono, are Japanese popular novels set mainly in the Edo period, written for entertainment, distinguished from historically faithful rekishi shōsetsu.
Jidō bungaku
Jidō bungaku (児童文学) is the Japanese term for children's literature, covering dōwa, boys' and girls' novels, children's songs, poetry, and plays since the Meiji era.
Jikkinshō
Jikkinshō (十訓抄, also read Jikkunshō) is a mid-Kamakura Japanese didactic tale collection compiled in 1252, organizing about 280 tales under ten headings of moral instruction for young people.
Jim Chee
Jim Chee, fictional Navajo Tribal Police officer created by Tony Hillerman in People of Darkness (1980), co-protagonist with Joe Leaphorn, hataalii trainee, husband of Bernadette Manuelito, continued by Anne Hillerman.
Jim Hawkins (character)
Jim Hawkins is the boy protagonist and first-person narrator of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island (1883), an innkeeper's son who finds Captain Flint's map, survives Long John Silver's mutiny aboard the Hispaniola, and matures; also the hero of Treasure Planet and many adaptations.
Jimoto Saiko!
Jimoto Saiko! (地元最高！), "My Hometown is the Best!", is usagi's web manga on X since 2021, published by Saizusha in 8 volumes; a MAPPA anime for Netflix was announced June 2026, distinct from other works sharing the phrase.
Jin Ping Mei (金瓶梅)
Jin Ping Mei (金瓶梅), or The Plum in the Golden Vase, is a late 16th-century Chinese novel of manners. It is known for its explicit sexual descriptions and realistic depiction of Ming society.
Jin Xue Jie
Jin Xue Jie (進學解) is a short essay in rhythmic prose by the Tang dynasty writer Han Yu, traditionally dated 813, in which a schoolmaster defends himself with self-mockery.
Jingben Tongsu Xiaoshuo
Jingben Tongsu Xiaoshuo (京本通俗小說), "Popular Stories in the Capital Edition," is a Chinese collection of huaben vernacular short stories published by the bibliographer Miao Quansun in 1915 from a claimed Yuan manuscript whose authenticity is disputed.
Jingde Chuandeng Lu
The Jingde Chuandeng Lu (景德传灯录), or Record of the Transmission of the Lamp, is a 1004 Chan history by Daoyuan covering 1,701 masters in 52 generations.
Jingshi Tongyan
Jingshi Tongyan (警世通言), or Stories to Caution the World, is a collection of 40 vernacular Chinese stories compiled by the Ming writer Feng Menglong and first printed in 1624, the second of the three Sanyan collections.
Jinsei Gyakuten (人生逆転)
Jinsei Gyakuten (人生逆転) is a Japanese light novel series by D, illustrated by hige-neko, published by KADOKAWA's Sneaker Bunko from November 2024; a Kakuyomu contest double winner about a falsely accused bullied student, with a manga adaptation by Eiku Ikaguchi.
Jiraiya (児雷也)
Jiraiya (児雷也, also 自来也) is a toad-magic thief hero of Edo Japanese fiction, from the Chinese Xieshi bandit through the 1839 gōkan Jiraiya Gōketsu Monogatari, kabuki, Japan's first tokusatsu film, and Naruto's Sannin.
Jivandhara Charite
Jivandhara Charite (Jīvandharacarite) is a Kannada Jain narrative poem by the poet Bhāskara, completed at Penugonde in 1424, retelling the life of Prince Jivandhara in 1000 verses across 18 chapters.
Jiwanar Baatot
Jiwanar Baatot (জীৱনৰ বাটত) is a 1945 Assamese novel by Birinchi Kumar Barua, published under the pen name Bina Baruah and called a milestone of the Assamese novel.
JLA/Avengers
JLA/Avengers (Avengers/JLA on Marvel's issues) is a 2003 four-issue DC/Marvel crossover by Kurt Busiek and George Pérez uniting the Justice League and Avengers against Krona, after a doomed 1983 attempt, and the last major crossover for two decades.
Jnanpith Award (ज्ञानपीठ पुरस्कार)
Jnanpith Award (ज्ञानपीठ पुरस्कार), India's highest literary honor, given by the Bharatiya Jnanpith trust since 1965 for lifetime contribution in Eighth Schedule languages or English; ₹11 lakh plus Vagdevi statuette; recent laureates Gulzar, Rambhadracharya, Vinod Kumar Shukla, R. Vairamuthu.
Joc secund
"Joc secund" is a 1929 poem by the Romanian poet and mathematician Ion Barbu, the title poem of his only verse volume and a central hermetic modernist ars poetica.
Jocelyn
Jocelyn is a narrative poem by Alphonse de Lamartine, published in February 1836, presenting the verse journal of a village priest devoted to charity and sacrifice.
Jock of the Bushveld
Jock of the Bushveld is a 1907 book by Sir Percy FitzPatrick recounting his 1880s ox-wagon transport-riding days in the Transvaal Bushveld with his dog Jock, a Staffordshire Bull Terrier cross.
Joe Goldberg
Joe Goldberg (Joseph Gabriel Goldberg) is the fictional stalker-serial-killer protagonist of Caroline Kepnes's You novels and the Netflix series (2018–2025), portrayed by Penn Badgley; aliases Will Bettelheim and Jonathan Moore, imprisoned in the 2025 series finale.
Joe Leaphorn
Joe Leaphorn is Tony Hillerman's fictional Navajo Tribal Police lieutenant, first appearing in The Blessing Way (1970) and later paired with Jim Chee; played on screen by Fred Ward, Wes Studi, and Zahn McClarnon in AMC's Dark Winds.
Joe Yabuki (矢吹丈)
Joe Yabuki (矢吹丈) is the protagonist of Ashita no Joe (Tomorrow's Joe), the 1968–1973 boxing manga by Asao Takamori (Ikki Kajiwara) and Tetsuya Chiba: a slum orphan trained by Danpei Tange, rival of Rikiishi, who burns out to white ash against Jose Mendoza.