Karenkō Prefecture

Karenkō Prefecture
花蓮港廳
Karenkō Prefecture 花蓮港廳
Karenkō-chō
1909-1952
	; The Karenkō Prefecture government building
Capital	Hualien City
Population
• 1941	153,785
Historical era	Taiwan under Japanese rule
• Established	1909
• Disestablished	25 October 1945
• Treaty of San Francisco	28 April 1952
Political subdivisions	1 city (市); 3 districts (郡)
Today part of	Hualien County

Karenkō Prefecture (花蓮港廳, Karenkō-chō) was one of the administrative divisions of Taiwan during Japanese rule. The prefecture consisted of modern-day Hualien County. The prefecture was named after lotus flowers.^[1]

Population

Total population	153,785
Japanese	20,914
Taiwanese	130,720
Korean	119
1941 (Showa 16) census.

Administrative divisions

Map of part of Karenkō Prefecture (1944)

Cities and Districts

In 1945 (Shōwa 20), there were 1 city and 3 districts.

Cities (市 shi)			Districts (郡 gun)
Name	Kanji	Kana	Name	Kanji	Kana
Karenkō City	花蓮港市	かれんこうし	Karen District	花蓮郡	かれんぐん
			Hōrin District	鳳林郡	ほうりんぐん
			Tamazato District	玉里郡	たまざとぐん

Towns and Villages

The districts are divided into towns (街) and villages (庄)

District	Name	Kanji	Notes
Karen 花蓮郡	Yoshino village	吉野庄	Today Ji'an Township
	Kotobuki village	壽庄	Today Shoufeng Township
	Kenkai village	研海庄	Today Xincheng Township
	Aboriginal Area	蕃地	Today Xiulin Township
	Karenkō town	花蓮港街	Upgraded to a city in 1940. Today Hualien City
Hōrin 鳳林郡	Hōrin town	鳳林街	Today Fenglin Township and part of Guangfu Township
	Mizuho village	瑞穗庄	Today Ruisui Township and part of Guangfu Township
	Shinsha village	新社庄	Today Fengbin Township
	Aboriginal Area	蕃地	Today Wanrong Township
Tamazato 玉里郡	Tamazato town	玉里街	Today Yuli Township
	Tomizato village	富里庄	Today Fuli Township
	Aboriginal Area	蕃地	Today Zhuoxi Township

Karenkō Shrine

Karenkō Shrine was a Shinto shrine located in Hualien City, Hualien County (formerly Karenkō city, in Taiwan during Japanese colonial rule. It was ranked as a Prefectural Shrine and was the central shrine in Karenkō Prefecture.^[2]

History

The shrine was built on August 19, 1915 (Taishō 4). Prince Yoshihisa and the Three Kami Deities of Cultivation no Mikoto, Ōnamuchi no Mikoto, no Mikoto were enshrined. On March 2, 1921 the shrine was classified as a Prefectural Shrine.

After World War II, the shrine became a martyrs' shrine honoring Taiwan's heroes such as Tei Seikō, Liu Yongfu, and Qiu Fengjia. In 1981, the shrine was demolished to make way for the Hualien Martyrs' Shrine which was built in the Northern Palace Architecture style.

References

^ Morris, Andrew D. (2015-07-30). Japanese Taiwan: Colonial Rule and its Contested Legacy. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 100–103. ISBN 978-1-4725-7673-6.
^ Kam, Liza Wing Man (2021), Hoon, Chang-Yau; Chan, Ying-kit (eds.), "Liberating Architecture from "Chineseness": Colonial Shinto Shrines and Post-colonial Martyrs' Shrines in Post-war Taiwan", Contesting Chineseness, Asia in Transition, vol. 14, Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, pp. 59–81, doi:10.1007/978-981-33-6096-9_4, ISBN 978-981-336-095-2, retrieved 2023-11-02

[1] Morris, Andrew D. (2015-07-30). Japanese Taiwan: Colonial Rule and its Contested Legacy. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 100–103. ISBN 978-1-4725-7673-6.

[2] Kam, Liza Wing Man (2021), Hoon, Chang-Yau; Chan, Ying-kit (eds.), "Liberating Architecture from "Chineseness": Colonial Shinto Shrines and Post-colonial Martyrs' Shrines in Post-war Taiwan", Contesting Chineseness, Asia in Transition, vol. 14, Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, pp. 59–81, doi:10.1007/978-981-33-6096-9_4, ISBN 978-981-336-095-2, retrieved 2023-11-02

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