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The original site of a district shrine (鄉社) established in Qingshui in November 1937. Almost everything is gone except the komainu (stone guardian lions) and the long stairs leading up from the town below. Next to the visiting path one will find Qingshui Earthquake Monument. It would have likely been Kiyomizu-jinja in the original Japanese.
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Links
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
- Wild Land Travel (-地球上的火星人-下巴 (野地旅))
- Japanese Deities Overseas (遠渡來台的日本諸神：日治時期的台灣神社田野踏查)
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)
Connections
- Taichung Shinto Shrine (台中神社)
- Qingshui Earthquake Monument (清水震災紀念碑)
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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.