Tobacco barns scattered across the former Hayashida Immigrant Village (林田移民村) in Fenglin, where the Hakka farmers who took over the settlement after the Japanese departure turned to tobacco around the 1950s. Household wealth was once counted in barns; the tall Osaka-style curing houses, capped by a “prince tower” (太子樓) vent above the ridge, proved vulnerable to typhoons, and only around ten now survive. A few have been restored or integrated into private homes, while others stand in ruins.
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Links
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
- Wild Land Travel (-地球上的火星人-下巴 (野地旅))
Themes
- Japanese Immigrant Villages in Taiwan (台灣日治時期日本移民村)
- Tobacco Industry in Taiwan (台灣菸業)
Connections
- Hayashida Immigrant Village (林田移民村)
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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.