| 1. | ![[wa0035] [Washing clothes in Yilan]](/cgi-bin/thumbnail.exe?CISOROOT=/warner&CISOPTR=196 "[wa0035] [Washing clothes in Yilan]") | [wa0035] [Washing clothes in Yilan] | 480 Travel and Transportation; 312 Water Supply; 310 Exploitative Activities; 503 Waterways Improvements; 510 Living Standards and Routines; 512 Daily Routine; 487 Routes; 500 Water and Air Transport | An irrigation canal in Yilan prefecture's central plain, the ""rice bowl"" of Lanyangsan(Ranyosan) County 蘭陽三郡. Katsuyama (1931) also notes that it ""is amusing/interesting that the locals along the banks use the water for laundry (p. 156). |
| 2. | ![[wa0250] [Oluanpi lighthouse and shrine]](/cgi-bin/thumbnail.exe?CISOROOT=/warner&CISOPTR=304 "[wa0250] [Oluanpi lighthouse and shrine]") | [wa0250] [Oluanpi lighthouse and shrine] | 340 Structures; 341 Architecture; 344 Public Structures; Religious and Educational Structures; 710 Military Technology; 712 Military Installations; 500 Air and Water Transport; 503 Waterways Improvements | One of the officially proclaimed ""Eight Sights of Taiwan"" during Japanese colonial rule, Ouluanbi [Oluanpi] 鸥銮鼻 ""is located at the southern-most tip of the island of Taiwan, in the Ouluanbi district of Hengchun Rural Township, Pingdong County....Ouluanbi is also called South Jia 南岬, or Shamaqi 沙马崎, or in Western Languages, South Cape. Ouluanbi's name comes from the Paiwan ... which in Chinese was transliterated as Ouluan. It meant sail. To emphasize the prominence of the jutting peninsula, the word bi was added, meaning ""nose""....After 1875, Chinese people began coming here..."" (Liu 1996, p. 129). The lighthouse itself was built in 1882, it is 70 ft. tall. Rare for a lighthouse, Ouluanbi is also a fortress, built to arrest ""incursions"" from local Aborigines (Macdonald 2007, p. 180). As a symbol of governmental authority and |
