A small shrine built in the vicinity of the sprawling Jinshui Oilfield (錦水礦場) by the Japanese colonial era oil company (日本石油株式会社錦水鑛場). Established in February 1936 and allegedly located somewhere behind Foci Temple (佛慈宮), but the exact location is not known with certainty. There is some speculation that the former site is now part of a graveyard. Some relics of the shrine can be found at Jinshuifude Park (錦水福德公園), but this is not the former location of the shrine. In the original Japanese it would have been known as Kinsui-jinja.
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Links
- Japanese Deities Overseas (遠渡來台的日本諸神：日治時期的台灣神社田野踏查)
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)
- Mining Industry in Taiwan (台灣礦業)
- Oil Industry in Taiwan (台灣油業)
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