A gentle youth As a Western painting major at Kawabata, Lin studied oil painting, watercolors and gouache painting, but he also took courses in Japanese painting to get a basic grounding in that field.
含蓄水墨，溫文少年進入川端畫學校西畫科的林玉山，不論油畫、水彩或是膠彩，樣樣都學，並經常到日本畫科去見習。