A small monument with a bust of Matsuki Kanichiro (松木幹一郎), president of Taiwan Power Co. Ltd. (灣電力株式會社) from 1929 to 1939. Under his management the Sun Moon Lake Hydroelectric Project was finally completed, and to honor this fact a monument was established on this site in 1940. Due to the war effort, the original bust was removed and melted down in 1943, leaving only the base to stand alone for many decades. Lim Bingyan, a retired Taipower employee and historian, spearheaded an effort to remake the bust in 2009, and it was installed in 2010. Also notable is that the bust faces Lalu Island, formerly the site of a Shinto shrine in the center of the lake.
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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)
- Beitoupu Lin Bingyan (北投埔林炳炎)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Sun Moon Lake Hydroelectric Project (日月潭水力電氣工事)
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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.