Erected the late 1930s near a site where the crown prince of Japan once camped during the initial invasion of Taiwan in 1895, this monument was dismantled sometime after the war, leaving only the base and surrounding stonework. In 2015 the nearby temple installed an art installation in the form of a “wishing tree” made from oysters (喜願樹), but the steel substructure had to be properly mounted in the base, causing some damage.
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Links
- Wild Land Travel (-地球上的火星人-下巴 (野地旅))
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Yiwei War (乙未戰爭)
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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.