In addition, tourism was liberalized at around the same time, leading to rapid growth in the number of Japanese tourists visiting Taiwan. The study of calligraphy was booming in Japan at that time, and traditional hand-made ink sticks were very popular with Japanese tourists.
加上開放觀光後，來台旅遊的日本遊客日增，日本書道盛行，這種傳統手工製墨條品質精純，甚得日本遊客青睞。