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Yiddish humoreske
The Yiddish humoreske (הומאָרעסקע, from German Humoreske) is a short comic work, usually in prose, that filled Yiddish newspapers and collections from the late nineteenth century onward.
Yiddish joke
The Yiddish joke is a body of humor transmitted orally in Yiddish-speaking Eastern Europe and later collected, printed, and studied as a distinct body of folklore, summarized as laughter against tears.
Yiddish legend
A Yiddish legend is a traditional narrative told in Yiddish by Ashkenazi Jews, from the 1602 Mayse-bukh to Hasidic tales and folk stories collected before the Holocaust.
Yiddish novel
The Yiddish novel is long prose fiction written in Yiddish, a tradition that began with its first modern novel in 1864 and flourished in interwar Warsaw.
Yijian Zhi
Yijian Zhi (夷堅志, Record of the Listener) is a large collection of Chinese anomaly tales compiled by the Song scholar Hong Mai until his death in 1202.
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.
Yinbingshi wenji
Yinbingshi wenji (飲冰室文集, "Collected Writings from the Ice-Drinker's Studio") is the title of the collected works of Chinese reform-era journalist and historian Liang Qichao, in editions published from 1902 to 1937.
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.
Yinglie Zhuan
Yinglie Zhuan, also known as Huangming Yinglie Zhuan or Yunhe Qizong, is a sixteenth-century Chinese historical novel narrating how Zhu Yuanzhang rose from poverty to found the Ming dynasty.
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.
Yoh Asakura (麻倉 葉)
Yoh Asakura (麻倉 葉), also written Asakura You, is the protagonist of Hiroyuki Takei's manga Shaman King: a spirit-seeing boy entering the 500-year Shaman Fight with the samurai spirit Amidamaru, twin brother of Hao, later father of Hana in FLOWERS.
Yoko Tsuno
Yoko Tsuno, Japanese electronics engineer heroine of the Franco-Belgian comic series by Roger Leloup, first published in Spirou in 1970 by Dupuis; 32 albums spanning Earth, space, Vinéa, and time travel.
Yokuts oral literature
Yokuts oral literature is the traditional myths, tales, and songs of the Yokuts peoples of California's San Joaquin Valley, centered on Eagle, the creator, and Coyote.
Yōkyoku
Yōkyoku (謡曲) is the chanted text of Japanese Noh theater, or its vocal music with melody, treated synonymously with utai and read as a literary genre in its own right.
Yomihon
Yomihon (読本), literally "reading books", are woodblock-printed Edo-period prose novels that arose in Kamigata around 1748 and flourished in Edo, including Ueda Akinari's Ugetsu monogatari and Kyokutei Bakin's Nansō Satomi hakkenden.
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.
Yongzhou Ba Ji
Yongzhou Ba Ji (永州八记, "Eight Records of Yongzhou") is a set of eight landscape essays written by Tang dynasty writer Liu Zongyuan during his exile in Yongzhou, Hunan.
Yor Forger (ヨル・フォージャー)
Yor Forger (ヨル・フォージャー), also Yor Briar, is the Spy x Family character who is a Berlint City Hall clerk by day and the Garden assassin Thorn Princess by night, wife of Loid Forger, voiced by Saori Hayami.
Yorick
Yorick: the dead jester whose skull Hamlet holds in Hamlet's graveyard scene, and Sterne's Parson Yorick of Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey, Sterne's pseudonymous alter ego and author name of his sermons.
Yoruba novel
The Yoruba novel is a tradition of full-length prose fiction in the Yoruba language, begun by D. O. Fágúnwà's 1938 Ògbójú Ọdẹ Nínú Igbó Irúnmọlẹ̀.
Yosl Rakover Talks to God
Yosl Rakover Talks to God (Yossl Rakover ret tsu Got) is a short story by Zvi Kolitz, published in Yiddish in Buenos Aires in 1946.
Yosuga no Sora (ヨスガノソラ)
Yosuga no Sora (ヨスガノソラ) is a Japanese romance visual novel with branching routes for five heroines, including a taboo sibling romance, adapted into a 12-episode anime in 2010.
Yotaka Futatabi (夜鷹ふたたび)
Yotaka Futatabi (夜鷹ふたたび, Nighthawk Returns) is a seinen manga by Fuyuki Izumida serialized in Kodansha's Morning since November 2025, about a legendary 33-year-old hitwoman living as an unemployed slob who is invited back into the assassination world.
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."
You Are Here (novel)
You Are Here is a 2024 comic romance novel by David Nicholls, in which two divorced strangers walk Wainwright's Coast to Coast trail across northern England.
You Are Ms. Servant
You Are Ms. Servant (君は冥土様。, Kimi wa Meido-sama.) is an ongoing comedy-romance manga by Shotan on Shogakukan's Sunday Webry about a former-assassin maid named Yuki, adapted into a 12-episode 2024 TV anime directed by Ayumu Watanabe.