Fukahori Shrine

Date CapturedJune 21st, 2024 at 02:47 UTCCameraDC-S5M2LensLUMIX S 20-60mm F3.5-5.6Apertureƒ / 7.1Shutter Speed1/250 secFocal Length30.0 mmISO100Exposure Value13.6 EVOriginal Size3600 × 2400

A small Shinto shrine established in January 1932 to the ill-fated 1897 expedition of Fukahori Yasuichiro (深堀安一郎), in which the Japanese army captain and a party of more than a dozen men attempted to cross the central mountain range from Puli to Hualien, but perished in a conflict with Taiwanese Indigenous people. The shrine was destroyed in typhoon flooding in the late Japanese colonial era and no trace remains. More recently the Xining Temple (西寧寺) was rebuilt around the original site of the shrine. A side altar in this temple preserves a rare Japanese colonial era statue of Acala (不動明王) recognized as an antiquity. Romanized as Fukahori-hokora in Japanese.