It just so happened that while Lin was in Japan, a Tokyo museum held a large-scale exhibition of Chinese and Japanese fine arts. At that exhibition Lin viewed masterpieces by important traditional Chinese ink wash painters, such as Chi Baishi, Wu Changshuo and Xu Beiheng.
正巧當年日本東京府立美術館舉辦一次大規模的中日美術展覽會，林玉山在那一次見到了中國水墨大家齊白石、吳昌碩等名家氣魄非凡的畫作。