Founded in 1897 as a women’s division of the Governor-General’s National Language School, the school was reorganized in 1922 as Taipei Third Girls’ High School (臺北第三高女) and relocated to its present site on Chang’an East Road in 1937. Renamed Taipei Municipal Zhongshan Girls High School in 1967. Yixianlou (逸仙樓), the main school building designed by Shinohara Takeo (篠原武男), was designated a municipal monument in 1997.
A school shrine (校內社), in the form of a taima hōsaiden (大麻奉齋殿), a structure enshrining imperial talismans, stood in front of the auditorium on the southeast side of campus. It was inaugurated in 1940 to mark the 2,600th anniversary of the legendary founding of the empire. Although the structure is gone, a hōankoku (奉安櫃) survives in the principal’s office, along with what is reportedly the oldest extant copy of the Imperial Rescript on Education (教育勅語) in Taiwan.
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Heritage Status
- Municipal Monument (直轄市定古蹟)
Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Cultural Assets Bureau (文化部文化資產局)
- Cultural Assets Bureau (文化部文化資產局)
Themes
- 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.