Built around 1916 by Ōtaki Tōkichi (大瀧藤吉), a settler from Niigata (新潟), this wooden house originally had a thatched roof, later replaced with black tiles. Ōtaki was repatriated to Japan after World War 2, and the house passed to Qiu Yunhai (邱雲海), who served as Luye township mayor and a Taitung county councillor. It is the most intact surviving Japanese building in the former Shikano Immigrant Village.
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Heritage Status
- Historic Building (歷史建築)
Links
- Cultural Assets Bureau (文化部文化資產局)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Japanese Immigrant Villages in Taiwan (台灣日治時期日本移民村)
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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.