Eguchi Ryōzaburō Monument (江口氏紀念碑)

A newly-manufactured (and already weatherworn) torii stands in front of the reinstalled monument. Along the waterfront in the Port of Hualien stands a monument dedicated to the memory of Eguchi Ryōzaburō (江口良三郎), a career soldier, policeman, and veteran of the 1914 Truku War (太魯閣戰爭) who headed the colonial government’s Aborigine Affairs Section (理蕃課) before serving as the fifth sub-prefect of Karenkō Prefecture (花蓮港廳), now Hualien County, from 1920 until 1926. He is credited locally with promoting the construction of the Port of Hualien (花蓮港), privately financing the Eguchi Jetty (江口突堤), and contributing to the development of industry in the city. The front of the monument reads: In Praise of Governor Eguchi (江口廳長頌德). Both the stone stele and the bronze statue originally erected in 1927 were lost in the tumult of the early post-war years. When the parkland was first surveyed for development in the mid-2000s the stele was found discarded in a ditch. In 2008 the county government…