Established in June 1912, this unranked Shinto shrine (無格社) was built to provide for the spiritual needs of the Japanese townspeople of this immigrant village. After the war the site was converted into a Chinese Martyrs’ Shrine and a military encampment occupied the grounds until around 1990. Little remains of the shrine except some stone monuments behind the modern Qingfeng Market (慶豐市場), built in 1999. One monument marks the founding of the shrine in 1912 (吉野神社鎮座紀念碑) and the other commemorates the founding of the village (吉野拓地開村紀念碑). There are also some old stone lanterns around that were excavated in the 1990s.
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Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
Sources
- Kaneko Nobuya, Japanese Deities Overseas, Yeren Publishing House, 2020 金子展也，《遠渡來台的日本諸神：日治時期的台灣神社田野踏查》，野人，2020
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Shinto Shrines in Taiwan (台灣神社)
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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.