A small monument to the animals slaughtered at the former Banqiao Slaughterhouse (板橋屠宰場), erected on the grounds in 1933 at the initiative of a local meat vendor, Wu Yan (吳炎), who gathered fellow butchers to fund it. The stele now stands to the right of the entrance to the New Taipei City Animal Protection and Health Inspection Office (新北市政府動物保護防疫處), its inscription weathered and difficult to read behind a pane of glass.
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Links
- Scoop Monthly Taiwan (獨家報導)
Sources
- Masayuki Manabe, Cenotaphs Erected for the Repose of Animals’ Soul during Japanese Colonial Era, 2017, Vol. 62, pp. 347–373 真辺将之、『日本統治時代台湾の動物慰霊碑─畜魂碑・獣魂碑を中心に─』、2017、第62巻、347–373頁
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Animal Spirit Monuments in Taiwan (台灣畜魂碑)
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.