D3314: Insects in Sino-Korean poetry before the 15th century

Sino-Korean poetry is a poem written by Koreans in Chinese characters until before modern times. Therefore, Sino-Korean poetry is the oldest literary work of Korea. This study investigated insects that appeared in Sino-Korean poetry before the 15th century for the study of cultural entomology. Insect-related vocabularies included in 33 kinds of collections before the 15th century among 153 types of classic translation collections included in Total Korean Literature Collections were investigated. There were 50 insect-related vocabularies, and butterflies and cicadas were the most frequent. Among the 31 collections of works, the collection with the highest frequency of insect-related vocabulary was Sagajip in the 15th century and the collection of Mukeonjip in the 14th century.