Two-courtyard, double-wing Minnan-style ancestral residence of the Su (蘇) family in the village of Taiye (太爺), built sometime between the late 18th and mid-19th century. The house is best known as the site where Reverend Thomas Barclay met Japanese general Nogi Maresuke (乃木希典) on October 20, 1895, during the Yiwei War. The agreement reached at that meeting led to the peaceful entry of Japanese forces into Tainan and spared the city from a destructive assault.
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- Qing Dynasty Era Taiwan (清治時期台灣)
- Minnan Architecture (閩南建築)
- 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.