Completed in June 1933, this was an institutional shrine (構內社) of the nearby sugar factory (車路墘製糖所), and hence also known as Chelunqian Shrine (車路墘社), or Sharoken-sha in Japanese. Due to the location is was also known as Hushan Shrine (虎山社). It was mostly dismantled after the war and replaced with a shrine to Amitabha (阿彌陀佛亭), but several relics remain scattered around the hillside.
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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)
- Sugar Industry in Taiwan (台灣糖業)
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