Completed in February 1940, this unranked Shinto shrine (無格社) in Su’ao was located in a valley west of the more built-up part of town. After the war the area was used as a military camp, and the shrine was dismantled. Since the opening of a junior high school (宜蘭縣立蘇澳國民中學) on the original site, numerous relics have been rediscovered, but they are all relatively minor (stone lantern bases and such). Likely known as Suō-jinja in the original Japanese.
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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)
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