Journey to the West Online Anime Series Depiction of the Forbidden Temple'southward Lord's day Wukong as depicted in a scene in a Beijing opera. Journeying to the West , one of the Iv Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature , was written in the 16th century and attributed to Wu Cheng'en . Stories and characters were widely used, especially in Beijing opera , and has been adjusted many times in modern movie, television receiver, stage, and other media. Paintings [ edit ] The Japanese artist Tsukioka Yoshitoshi published a series of p