Former site of a small shrine established around 1919 at the original Bunun settlement of Tavila in the mountains above Zhuoxi. The Japanese name Tabira (タビラ) is a transliteration of the Bunun place name. Following the colonial government’s forced resettlement policy in 1931, the community was relocated downhill and the shrine was formally transferred to the new site in December 1935, becoming Taihei-sha (太平社). While the general location of the original settlement is known, the current status of any shrine remnants is unknown.
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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)
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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