In those days, the families of local Taiwanese schoolkids were generally not so well off, so they just wrapped their school books in cloth, while their Japanese counterparts carried their books to school in smartly designed canvas bags made in Japan. Observing the economic gap between the locals and the Japanese students, the schoolteacher could only sigh.
他在日治時期是國小老師，當時經濟條件較差的台灣囡仔，只能用簡單的布巾包書，但同齡的日本學生卻帶著方正筆挺的日製帆布書包，「內地人」和「本島人」懸殊的貧富差距，令他頗為感慨。