Two stone lanterns and a refurbished torii are all that remains of a small Shinto shrine in this Amis Indigenous village. Originally known as Harawan-sha in Japanese, it was renamed along with the settlement to Rakugō-shi (樂合祠) in 1937. Other names in circulation include Rakuwa-sha (洛和社), Ochiai-sha (落合社), and in a more recent social context, Halawan Shinto Shrine (哈拉灣神社). In the post-war era the name of the village was restored but with a different set of characters.
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- 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))
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- 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.