At the age of twenty he graduated from the teachers 'education department of the Governor-General's Model class ='Qword'>Class in Japanese Education. Passing the first publicly-funded overseas education exam, he entered the Western painting department of the Tokyo Fine Arts College, where he became the first student from early Taiwan to study painting in Japan.
二十歲時，自台灣總督府國語學校師範科畢業，通過首次公費留學考試，進入東京美術學校西洋畫科，成為早期台灣赴日習畫的第一人。