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The Temple Regulation Movement
12019-11-18T17:21:23-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5f356This page introduces the Temple Regulation Movement during the Kōminka period (1936-1945)plain51382020-08-11T19:54:57-04:0023.69781, 120.960511937-1941Evan Dawley Becoming TaiwaneseEvan N. DawleyTaiwan Government-General; ShintoKandra Polatis4decfc04157f6073c75cc53dcab9d25e87c02133By the time these festivals were held again, structural factors had begun to shift in ways that made preserving the Joint Deity-Welcoming Festival less important than protecting the temples themselves. In September 1936, the Taiwan Government-General launched the Kōminka Movement, roughly defined as a set of policies that aimed at the complete and rapid assimilation of all Taiwanese as good, loyal Japanese subjects of the Emperor. A core aspect of Kōminka was the extension of Shinto across all of Taiwan's physical and spiritual terrain and to this end, the Government-General issued policies in 1937 and 1938 that constituted what it called the Temple Regulation Movement (Jibyō seiri undō). The movement's objectives were to establish more shrines, replace ancestral altars in Taiwanese homes with altars to Shinto deities, and amalgamate Taiwanese temples into fewer institutions before, ideally, reconsecrating them as shrines. These policies amounted to a full-scale attempt to reterritorialize the sacred geography of Taiwan by making it coterminous with Japanese sacred space.
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12019-11-18T17:21:25-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fThe Japanese Occupation of Taiwan's Sacred SpaceDavid Ambaras16This page discusses how Japanese secular and religious institutions at least temporarily occupied some of the native temples after 1895.plain2020-12-29T14:08:39-05:0025.1276, 121.73918post-1895Evan N. Dawley, Becoming TaiwaneseEvan N. DawleyPrince Kitashirakawa no Miya Yoshihisa; Shinto; Buddhism; Shinshū sect; Pure Land sect; Sōdō sect; Chenghuang templeDavid Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d238145277
1media/QingAn.jpg2019-11-18T17:21:25-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fSacred Geographies of Urban Colonial Taiwan: Jilong's Geography in TransformationDavid Ambaras57Evan N. Dawleyimage_header53852020-12-30T15:38:02-05:0025.1276, 121.739181885-1945Evan N. DawleyDavid Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d238145277
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1media/QingAn.jpg2019-11-18T17:21:27-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fThe Temple Regulation Movement: Consolidation in Jilong7This page discusses the decision to consolidate all major temples into the Qing'an Templeplain2020-08-20T23:44:04-04:0025.12962, 121.740771937-1941Evan N. Dawley, Becoming TaiwaneseEvan N. DawleyTemple Restructuring Movement; Joint Deity-Welcoming Festival; Taiwan Government-GeneralEvan Dawley7a40080bd5bb656cee837d5befaa3ea8e7a2ac44
1media/QingAn.jpg2019-11-18T17:21:30-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fThe Temple Regulation Movement: Island-wide Accomplishments7This page explores the limited, uneven application of the consolidation policy across Taiwan.plain2020-08-11T19:56:16-04:0023.69781, 120.960511937-1941Evan N. Dawley, Becoming TaiwaneseEvan N. DawleyTemple Restructuring Movement; Taipei; Jilong; Danshui; Gaoxiong; Tainan; TaidongKandra Polatis4decfc04157f6073c75cc53dcab9d25e87c02133
1media/QingAn.jpg2019-11-18T17:21:30-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fThe Failure of Japanese Colonization of Taiwan's Sacred Geography8This page explores the very limited extent to which Japan achieved a takeover of Taiwan's sacred geography in Jilong.plain51382020-08-11T19:56:53-04:0025.1276, 121.739181895-1945Evan N. Dawley, Becoming TaiwaneseEvan N. DawleyGhost Festival; shōkon; Yasukuni Shrine; Masdua Fukutarō; Qing'an Temple; Mazu; Lingquan Temple; Bōshin WarKandra Polatis4decfc04157f6073c75cc53dcab9d25e87c02133
