A small Inari shrine established in October 1928 on the slope of a hill in southern Miaoli City. It was a private shrine (構內社) built by the nearby sugar factory (苗栗製糖所), which no longer exists. Time has taken its toll on the remains of this old shrine, but several stone lantern bases can still be discerned while climbing the visiting path to what is now the Erpingshan Campus (二坪山校區) of National United University (國立聯合大學). Presumably known as Byoritsu Inari-sha in the original Japanese.
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Links
- Wild Land Travel (-地球上的火星人-下巴 (野地旅))
- Taiwan Jinjiya (嘉義縣日本時代博物館學會)
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
- Taiwan Shinto Shrines App, Kuona Lab. 《台灣神社遺構地圖》
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Shinto Shrines in Taiwan (台灣神社)
- Sugar Industry in Taiwan (台灣糖業)
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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.