Hsinchu Senior High School Kendo Hall

Completed in 1926 as the martial arts hall (武道場) of Hsinchu Middle School, this brick and timber structure was built under founding principal Ōki Shunkurō (大木俊九郎), himself a skilled kendōka who personally instructed students. The building features a gambrel roof, red brick walls with buttress columns to distribute roof loads, and arched windows on all four sides for ventilation. After serving as a library in the post-war period it faced demolition to make way for a music hall, but alumni campaigned successfully for its preservation; it was designated a city monument in 2001 and restored in 2021. It is the only surviving Japanese colonial era kendo hall in Taiwan.