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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.

Population

Administrative divisions

Cities and Districts

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

Towns and Villages

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

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.

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.

See also

• Political divisions of Taiwan (1895-1945)
• Governor-General of Taiwan
• Taiwan under Japanese rule
• Administrative divisions of the Republic of China

References

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

• States and territories established in 1909
• States and territories disestablished in 1945
• 1909 establishments in Taiwan
• Former prefectures of Japan in Taiwan
• Hualien County
• States and territories disestablished in 1952