The following year, in order to help Lin Yu-shan go to Japan for a second time to study painting, a hometown friend who was working at his own father's pharmacy paid the high price of ￥ 150 for the work-enough to cover most families 'living expenses for a year.
隔年，為了贊助林玉山第二次赴日習畫，藥房少東的同鄉友人以將近一般家庭一年生活費的一百五十圓高價買下《蓮池》。