How should we evaluate and judge a series of paintings from a different political time and space in the previous century? How did they end up in Zhongshan Hall? And why has the world forgotten about them? The painters were Taiwanese or Japanese? We don’t have enough clues, except Taiwan Daily News, August 2, 1929 (the 4th year of Showa)… These long-forgotten paintings only reappeared at the end of 2002 and sent to the Taipei Fine Arts Museum when Taipei Zhongshan Hall’s storage room was being reorganized. In 2005, art librarian (and famous translator) Lin Jiao-bi embarked on a magical trip to Japan, where she visited many times and traveled all over the country, revealing the background of those paintings and the painters’ stories that were once sealed in history. With the kindest and the most vivid style, Lin tells readers a warm and memorable story of the past that happened across countries.