Xianguang No. 10 Village (憲光十村) - Spectral Codex

A small cluster of Japanese colonial era wooden dormitories in central Pingtung City. The complex was built around 1928 to house personnel of the Pingtung subunit of the Tainan Military Police (台南憲兵分隊屏東分遣所). It was taken over by ROC military police after the war and reorganized as Xianguang No. 10 Village, the compound represents Pingtung’s first generation of Japanese-style wooden quarters: brick foundations, hinoki interiors, black-tile roofs in kirizuma and yosemune styles, and stone-washed columns and courtyard walls. Four of the buildings were registered as a county historic building in 2018 and now await reactivation.

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  • Historic Building (歷史建築)

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