EXPANSION AND REFORMATION PROCESS OF THE PRECINCT ENVIRONMENT OF TAIWAN SHIRINE DURING THE COLONIAL PERIOD

Abstract

This paper throws light upon the expansion and reformation process of precinct of Taiwan Shrine founded in 1901 on Mt. Chientan in colonized Tapei. The precincts of the shrine has experienced 3 times of expansion : 1) 1909, 2) 1913-1914 and 3) 1935-45. We can see, until the second expansion, a continuous process as a complement of founded precincts, but we have to indicate that the third expansion sharply enlarged the shrine area and drastically converted the conditons of location and spatial characteristics of precincts under the social and political backgrounds of wartime structure.