All that’s left of the Yoshino Shinto Shrine are a stele and the ruined bases of three stone lanterns. In place now is an arts village promoting Hakka and Aboriginal culture, a wet market and the Qingfeng City God Temple (慶豐城隍廟), which was established in 2005.
The overlay of cultures underscores the tempestuous history of this part of Jian Township (吉安) in Hualien County, which saw the removal of the original Amis inhabitants after the Cikasuan Incident of 1908 and the establishment of Taiwan’s first government-sponsored Japanese immigrant village of Yoshino in 1910. The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) destroyed the shrine