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Dragon skulls dreaming city2/22/2024 The Japanese commander of the 38th warship sunk during World War II is worshiped in Hongmaogang Baoan Temple. Six of these settlements boasted a major neighborhood temple, plus a dozen more smaller shrines and countless makeshift structures along the shore housing human remains hauled back by fishing boats. Hongmaogang was actually a series of small settlements spread out across a narrow sandbank, mostly named after the surname of the majority clan. Hsieh Kui-wen (謝貴文) writes in the book Continuity and Change: Hongmaogang’s Temples and Religious Beliefs after Relocation (延續與變遷: 遷村後紅毛港的寺廟與信仰) that due to the danger and uncertainty of heading out to sea in the early days, religious beliefs especially held strong in the village. A statue of late prime minister Shinzo Abe was erected outside the shrine after he was killed last year, and his widow visited the temple two weeks ago.įor centuries, Hongmaogang (“red hair harbor”) was once a bustling fishing village, likely named for the Dutch who were active in the area during the 1600s. The shrine remains a local curiosity, and also serves as a symbol of Taiwan’s modern relationship with Japan with many dignitaries visiting it. Hongmaogang Baoan Temple holds a ceremony in 2018 to pacify the souls of the 145 Japanese soldiers who died on the Yomogi warship.
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