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A small Shinto shrine in the mountains behind the Truku Indigenous community of Bsuring. It was known as Busurin-shi in Japanese. No torii remains but the structure of the shrine site is intact, albeit heavily overgrown as of the late 2010s. In the 2020s the site was remediated and a number of Japanese-style buildings were constructed near the entrance, presumably for tourism purposes. In an inexplicable twist, a daruma doll is now featured on the former site of the main hall of the shrine.
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- Wild Land Travel (-地球上的火星人-下巴 (野地旅))
- Go! Go! Kyoro-chan!!! (Go!Go!キョロちゃん)
- Taiwanese Indigenous Peoples’ Encyclopedia (臺灣原住民族事典)
- YouTube: Teacher A-Rong (阿榮師講文史、鐵道)
- Taiwan Visual Dictionary (台湾ビジュアル辞典)
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.