Ōhashi-gumi Supervisor’s Dormitory (豐里移民村大橋組指導官舍)

The frontal view of the old dormitory sometime after it collapsed. This traditional wooden residence once housed the supervisor or shidō-kan (指導官) of Ōhashi-gumi (大橋組), the largest of four settlements that made up Toyosato Immigrant Village (豐里移民村), one of many such Japanese settler-colonial projects on reclaimed river land in Changhua County in the 1930s. This particular village was established…