A century ago when the mountains of Taiwan were still isolated and had not yet suffered the inroads of civilization, the firsthand observations made by many Japanese explorers of Yushan and the nearby Central Mountain Range can perhaps offer people of a later age a good outline of what life was like for their predecessors.
一百年前，當台灣高山仍遺世獨立、沒有受到文明干擾之際，許多日本探險家在玉山及附近中央山脈的第一手觀察，或許可提供後人勾勒早期先民較豐富的生活圖像。