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Established in June 1906 in Yilan Park (宜蘭公園) and moved to this location in 1919, this was the former site of the top-ranking Shinto shrine in Yilan County. As with most other prefectural shrines (縣社) this one was converted into a Chinese nationalist martyrs’ shrine (宜蘭縣忠烈祠), probably in the 1970s, but has since been partially restored. It was known as Giran-jinja in the original Japanese.
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Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
- 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)
Connections
- Jingye New Village (圓山敬業新村)
- Yilan Wenchang Temple (宜蘭文昌廟)
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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.