At senior high school he began as a collector of bamboo musical instruments, straw toys, chopstick guns and so on, having seen how quickly television was catching on and supplanting many traditional children's toys.
在他高中時代，電視剛剛崛起，眼看即將迅速取代諸多從小玩的玩具，他便開始了收集之途，例如竹製樂器、草葉玩具、筷子槍等。