Listening quietly to the pines During the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, the Japanese adventurer Tori Ryuzo, setting out to climb Yushan, ascended to where the broad-leaved forest gives way to conifers. He looked around him and found that "with so many pines, the scenery is like Japan's."
日據時期探險家鳥居龍藏在前往台灣新高山（玉山）沿途，爬高到闊葉樹林被針葉樹取代的海拔，放眼「有很多松樹，好像看到日本景色。」