Established in October 1923, this was one of only two government-sanctioned Shinto shrines (官幣中社) in Taiwan, and second in importance only to Taiwan-jinja. It grew out of a memorial site (御遺跡所) at the house where Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa died in 1895. Crown Prince Hirohito visited the memorial site on his 1923 tour, six months before the shrine was dedicated. In the post-war period it was repurposed for use as a Chinese martyrs’ shrine. It was demolished in 1969 and the site was later used to build Tainan Municipal Stadium (臺南市立體育館). This, in turn, was demolished in 1991, and the lands of the former Shinto shrine are now occupied by Zhongyi Elementary School (忠義國小) and the Tainan Museum of Art (臺南市美術館二館).
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- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
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- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Shinto Shrines in Taiwan (台灣神社)
- 1923 Crown Prince Tour (臺灣行啟)
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