Established in August 1933, this is the most well-preserved of several Shinto shrines built in the Indigenous areas of Yilan County in the 1930s. There are several interesting monuments on site, including one about Taiwanese Indigenous people giving up hunting with guns, and another noting the name of five Indigenous communities in the area: Hanxi (寒溪); Gulu (古魯), now abandoned; Xiaonan (小南), Sifanglin (四方林), located a little to the northeast; and Dayuan (大元). Access the site from a trail leading up from the east side of the school. Also known as Kankei-shi (カンケイ祠) in the original Japanese. Under reconstruction in 2024, due to open to the public in summer 2025.
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Heritage Status
- City Monument (縣(市)定古蹟)
Recorded On
Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Cultural Assets Bureau (文化部文化資產局)
- Wild Land Travel (-地球上的火星人-下巴 (野地旅))
- Taiwan Visual Dictionary (台湾ビジュアル辞典)
- Japanese Deities Overseas (遠渡來台的日本諸神：日治時期的台灣神社田野踏查)
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)
- Indigenous People of Taiwan (台灣原住民)
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