A former Shinto shrine (山神社) established in either 1930 or October 1935 on a hilltop south of urban Zhudong. Although it is now next to a school, it was originally built for the oil refinery immediately to the north (台灣礦業竹東油業所). It was classed as an internal or institutional shrine (構內社) as a result. Much of it has been dismantled, and there is now a bust of Sun Yat-sen where the original shrine would have stood. The area was likely known as Intoku in Japanese.
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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)
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