Liugui Tenmangu Shinto Shrine

The hillside behind Liugui Township Office was once home to a Shinto shrine dedicated to Sugawara no Michizane (菅原 道真), the god of learning. It is one of only a handful of known Tenmangū shrines in Japanese colonial Taiwan, and it isn’t clear why this one was built here. Also mysterious is the choice of characters; the name originally ended with hokora (祠), which denotes a small-scale shrine, though it seems to have occupied the entire hillside. It was dismantled after the war and mostly forgotten until the early 2020s when the hillside was cleaned up and a small monument installed. Additionally there are some traces in the hill behind the shrine, notably a monument to police officers (警察官招魂之碑) laying somewhere in the forest.