Nanhu Shinto Shrine

An obscure stone monument to a demolished Shinto shrine established in 1938 on a hilltop behind Nanhu Hu’an Temple (南湖護安廟). Follow an access road next to a factory from Provincial Highway 3 and look for a sandstone stele in the underbrush. This was a yōhaijo (遙拜所), or remote worship shrine, with no actual kami, it only provided a sort of portal or connection to another shrine. Though the hall is long gone, local elders recall a small structure roughly two meters tall: a concrete base bearing a washed-terrazzo altar, on which stood a stone pillar inscribed with the name of Amaterasu (天照大神), all beneath a gabled roof. It might have been known as Nango-yōhaijo in the original Japanese.