An unranked Shinto shrine (無格社) established deep inside Taroko Gorge in December 1923 to commemorate the Japanese Governor-General Sakuma Samata’s victory over Taiwanese Indigenous in the brutal Truku War (太魯閣戰爭). Sometime after the ROC came to Taiwan it was transformed into Wen Tianxiang Park (文天祥公園). No part of the original shrine remains except for some landscaping and perhaps the underlying stone walls.
Map
Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
- National Digital Library: Taiwan Old Photo Archive (國立臺灣大學圖書館：臺灣舊照片資料庫)
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)
- Indigenous People of Taiwan (台灣原住民)
- Contested Heritage in Taiwan (爭議文化遺產)
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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.