He resolved to have it whatever the cost. The bottle's owner said that it was not for sale. It had been entrusted to him by a Japanese major general at the time of the Japanese defeat in World War II.
而瓶主卻表示，這隻花瓶，原是一名日本少將所收藏的，在被遣返日本的時候，轉託給他，不便出賣。