Sangam

Japanese: Sangam
Sangam

…It is also called Sangam literature. It is a collection of lyric poems written by nearly 500 poets mainly from the 1st to the 3rd century, and is commonly called Sangam literature based on the legend that it was compiled at the Sangam (royal literary academy). By the 13th century at the latest, the whole was divided into the Ettuthai (Eight Poems) and the Pattupattu (Ten Poems), the former containing 2,371 short poems of 3 to 31 lines, and the latter containing 10 long poems of 103 to 782 lines. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Sangam" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…シャンガム文学ともいわれる。おもに1世紀から3世紀にかけて,500名近くの詩人によってつくられた抒情詩を集大成したもので,〈サンガムSangam(宮廷文芸院)〉で編さんされたという伝説に基づいて〈サンガム文学〉と通称される。遅くとも13世紀ころまでに全体が《エットゥトハイ(八つの詞華集)》と《パットゥパーットゥ(十の詩編)》に二分され,前者は3行から31行の長さの短詩を2371編,後者は103行から782行の長詩を10編含んでいる。…

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