was a Shinto shrine located in previously ''Soa-a-teng'' (), Kagi City,

Tainan Prefecture was one of the administrative divisions of Taiwan during the Japanese rule. The prefecture consisted of modern-day Tainan City, Chiayi City, Chiayi County and Yunlin County. Population Administrative divisions Cities and districts In 19 ...

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(modern-day Chiayi Park,

Chiayi City Chiayi (, Taigi POJ: ''Ka-gī''; ), officially known as Chiayi City, is a city located in the plains of southwestern Taiwan. Formerly called ''Kagee'' during the late Qing dynasty and ''Kagi'' during the Japanese era (), its historical name ...

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). The shrine was built on 28 October 1915 ( Taishō 4) facing south but later altered in 1942 ( Shōwa 17) to face west. The shrine was originally categorized as a prefectural shrine in 1917 ( Taishō 6) but elevated to rank of in 1944 ( Shōwa 19).

Prince Yoshihisa of Japan, was the second head of a collateral branch of the Japanese imperial family. He was formerly enshrined in Tainan-Jinja, Taiwan, under the name ''Kitashirakawa no Miya Yoshihisa-shinnō no Mikoto'' as the main and only deity. Biogra ...

, , Ōnamuchi no Mikoto, and Amaterasu were enshrined as deities. The '' honden'' (main hall) was turned into a

martyrs' shrine The Martyrs' Shrine, also known as Shrine of the Canadian Martyrs (french: Sanctuaire des martyrs canadiens)is a Roman Catholic church in Midland, Ontario, Canada, which is consecrated to the memory of the Canadian Martyrs, six Jesuit Martyrs an ...

by the Republic of China government after World War II but was destroyed in a fire on 24 April 1994. The main office and purification hall now serve as the Chiayi City Historical Relics Museum. In 1998 the Chiayi Tower was built in place of the main hall, the design was inspired by an

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mythological tale about the creator of the world. In Chinese the tower is called Sun-Shooting Tower and houses an observation deck. The existing and are wooden structures built in the classical Japanese

Shoin-zukuri is a style of Japanese residential architecture used in the mansions of the military, temple guest halls, and Zen abbot's quarters of the Muromachi (1336－1573), Azuchi–Momoyama (1568–1600) and Edo periods (1600–1868). It forms the basi ...

architectural style and underwent repair work before being opened to the general public on 5 January 2001 as the Chiayi City Historical Relics Museum. The area became part of Chiayi Park and the temizuya (purification pavilion),

sandō A in Japanese architecture is the road approaching either a Shinto shrine or a Buddhist temple.Iwanami Japanese dictionary, 6th Edition (2008), DVD version. Its point of origin is usually straddled in the first case by a Shinto ''torii'', in t ...

(pathway), stone tōrō lantern, and

Komainu , often called lion-dogs in English, are statue pairs of lion-like creatures either guarding the entrance or the ''honden'', or inner shrine of many Japanese Shinto shrines or kept inside the inner shrine itself, where they are not visible to the ...

statues amongst other things still exist today.

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Image:Chiayi Water.JPG, Temizuya Image:Chiayi Lantern1.JPG, Stone tōrō lantern Image:Chiayi Korea Dog.JPG, Komainu statues

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射日傳說 Legend of Sun Shooting

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