This is the site of the original landing of Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa during the invasion of Taiwan in 1895. After the prince perished in Tainan a monument (澳底御上陸紀念碑) was built on this site in 1896, and it was promoted as a pilgrimage site throughout the Japanese colonial era. It was destroyed after the war and, in 1975, the base of the monument was repurposed for the current monument to anti-Japanese resistance.
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Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Contested Heritage in Taiwan (爭議文化遺產)
- Yiwei War (乙未戰爭)
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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.