There was a small Shinto shrine on the grounds of this school (湖口國民小學) in the Japanese colonial era. It was dismantled sometime after the war but the base of the shrine was integrated into a slide, and other relics may be scattered around school grounds. A stone podium resembling a shrine base survives at the rear of the campus, beside an old tree thought to date from the colonial era and possibly a remnant of the tamagaki (玉垣) fence. Known as Koko Public School Shrine in the original Japanese.
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- Taiwan Visual Dictionary (台湾ビジュアル辞典)
- Wild Land Travel (-地球上的火星人-下巴 (野地旅))
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- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Shinto Shrines in Taiwan (台灣神社)
- Education History in Taiwan (臺灣教育史)
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