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A government-funded shrine (國幣小社) established in October 1915 in Chiayi Park (嘉義公園) originally named Kagi-jinja in Japanese. This was one of the highest-ranked Shinto shrines in Taiwan. After the war the site was converted into a Martyrs’ Shrine. The original shrine buildings were destroyed by fire in 1994, but several relics remain, including stone lanterns, the temizuya or chōzuya (手水舎), a ritual purification pavilion, and the former shrine office building, now repurposed as the Shih Cheng Museum of History (史蹟資料館).
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- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Wild Land Travel (-地球上的火星人-下巴 (野地旅))
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)
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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.