At this time, trained professional Taiwanese masters returned home in droves, with each setting up a shop. Sometimes the Taiwanese students turned out to be better than their Japanese teachers, and they stole quite a bit of business away from the Japanese portrait galleries.
這時，習得一身本事的台籍寫真師紛紛回鄉，各立門戶，一些好手青出於藍，甚至搶走不少日籍寫真館的生意。