A small Shinto shrine located at a forestry workstation deep into Nantou County. It was likely established in November 1943 as a yōhaijo (remote worship) shrine (遙拜所) without any kami enshrined. In the post-war period it was lightly renovated into a shrine for the God of Land, Tudigong (郡大福德正神). It is also known as Wangxiang Shinto Shrine (望鄉祠).
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Links
- Wild Land Travel (-地球上的火星人-下巴 (野地旅))
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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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.