Ironically, one source of Alishan's "spirits of the dead" was what the Japanese considered to be their greatest spoils: the colossal Formosan cypress (Chamaecyparis formosensis), the timber of which was sent to faraway Japan to build Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines to protect the Japanese.
諷刺的是，阿里山上的「亡魂」──紅檜巨木──正是日人眼中的最佳戰利品，並千里迢迢送往日本守護佛寺、神社。