A former Shinto shrine funded by local residents and established in October 1927. It fell into disrepair and was eventually replaced by a newer shrine on a site now occupied by Xingang Junior High School (新港國民中學) around 1940. After the war this older shrine fell into disuse, and much of it was dismantled. In 2008 it was repurposed as a monument to Lalood no Madawdaw (麻荖漏事件), an Amis Indigenous uprising against Japanese rule in 1911. Likely known as Shinkō-shi (新港祠) in Japanese.
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Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
Sources
- Kaneko Nobuya, Japanese Deities Overseas, Yeren Publishing House, 2020 金子展也，《遠渡來台的日本諸神：日治時期的台灣神社田野踏查》，野人，2020
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Shinto Shrines in Taiwan (台灣神社)
- Education History in Taiwan (臺灣教育史)
- Indigenous People of Taiwan (台灣原住民)
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