A small temple whose deity, Shuijichenggong (水吉成公), popularly known as the Japanese god (日本神), arose in October 1944 when fishermen recovered the bones of three Japanese soldiers off Qihou (旗后) and enshrined them under a name granted by the Guanyin of the Hongmaogang Chaofeng Temple (紅毛港朝鳳寺). The three characters are thought to combine the surnames of the dead men: Mizuno (水野), Yoshimura (吉村), and Narita (成田). After years in a bamboo hut and then a breakwater shrine, it followed the Hongmaogang community to Fengshan, Kaohsiung, when the fishing village was cleared, and was rebuilt in 2008 as Zhengjun Temple (正軍堂), immediately behind the relocated Chaofeng Temple.
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Links
- Yang Ming Lecture Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (國立陽明交通大學陽明人文社會講座)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Temple Culture in Taiwan (台灣的寺廟文化)
- World War 2 History in Taiwan (台灣第二次世界大戰歷史)
- Ghost Island (鬼島)
- Deified Outsiders in Taiwan (台灣成神的外來者)
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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.