In 1956 the first guitar magazine in Taiwan, Guitar Monthly (吉他月刊), was founded in Taichung.
Hu Shu-lin wrote, edited and printed every issue himself. Born in 1916 in Taichung and known as the
godfather of Taiwanese classical guitar, he taught under the professional name Lin Genjiro
(林絃二郎; Japanese name 江島申雄, Ejima Nobuo) — so "the Lin Genjiro Guitar Institute" was his own studio,
and the registry below is his own list of students.
This archive gathers three groups of material from the family albums: photographs of Hu Shu-lin
performing and teaching, eleven surviving issues of Guitar Monthly, and 198 student registration cards
dated between 1936 and 1945.
