The Bunun settlement of Tavila was forcibly relocated here from a nearby mountain site in the early 1930s under the colonial government’s Indigenous resettlement policy (集團移住). An earlier shrine known as Tabira-shi (タビラ祠) was formally transferred to this new community on December 22, 1935, upgraded from shi to sha status, and renamed Taihei-sha (太平社). Unusually, it enshrined a water deity (彌都波能賣神), likely owing to frequent flooding from the nearby Xiuguluan River. The shrine was destroyed after the war and the site became the Taiping Pump Station (太平抽水站).
Note: this location has vanished. Any information presented here is only for reference.
提醒：此地點已消失，本文僅供參考用途。
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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)
- Taiwanese Indigenous Peoples’ Encyclopedia (臺灣原住民族事典)
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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