Prince Zheng Ai Memorial Monument Introduction
Located in a small alley in front of the Jia Ying Temple in Budai Township, there stands a monument inscribed by Taiwan Governor-General Tan Kenjirō that commemorates the landing of Prince Yoshida Kurō. The original monument was erected to commemorate the landing of Prince Yoshida Kurō and his Imperial Guard Division at Budai during the Sino-Japanese War in 1895. After World War II, the monument was toppled by the principal of a local school and discarded next to a wall. Later, a local landowner named Tsai used it as a foundation for a building. Following a series of disturbances in the area, Tsai's descendants decided to excavate the monument from their ancestral home, perform ancient rituals, and erect the new "Prince Yoshida's Landing Commemoration Monument," which was announced as a historical building by the Chiayi County Government in 2008.