A small Shinto shrine established in January 1932 in a remote Indigenous village in the mountains of southern Taitung. The site is likely near the modern Xinhua Police Station (新化派出所). Current status is unknown, but sources indicate the pedestal may still exist, wrapped by a tree. Also written as Tabakasu Shinto Shrine (他巴卡斯祠).
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Links
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
- National Digital Library: Taiwan Old Photo Archive (國立臺灣大學圖書館：臺灣舊照片資料庫)
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)
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Alexander Synaptic
Curator, Spectral Codex
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.