Yet most Taiwanese who had been trained as lacquer masters during the Japanese era had long since changed fields, and it turned out that searching for the right person to work with was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
想來台灣開設漆器工廠的日本人，剛到台灣，看見滿街都是漆行，以為台灣漆器如此發達而喜出望外，然而日據時代培養的師父大多轉行了，要找到理想的漆器師父已如大海撈針一般。