A former institutional Shinto shrine located in the remote mountains of Hengshan. It was likely constructed sometime between 1936 to 1939 at the Dashanpei branch of Fengxian National School (豐鄉國民學校大山背分教場). The school closed in 1983 and was later repurposed for use as an art center, exhibition hall, and meditation retreat (福爾魔砂). The shrine was mostly dismantled sometime in the post-war period but the stone base remains somewhere on the site. Hengshan was known as Yokoyama in Japanese, and the branch was possibly known as Ōyamase.
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- Wild Land Travel (-地球上的火星人-下巴 (野地旅))
- 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)
- Eyes On Place (眼底城事)
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- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Shinto Shrines in Taiwan (台灣神社)
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