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Following their official audiences in Edo, the mission made its way back to Kagoshima, arriving there on [[1791]]/3/17. Their official duties ended on 4/10, but on the sea voyage back to Naha from Kagoshima, the mission encountered numerous difficulties, only finally arriving home on 11/21.<ref name=mino/>

Following their official audiences in Edo, the mission made its way back to Kagoshima, arriving there on [[1791]]/3/17. Their official duties ended on 4/10, but on the sea voyage back to Naha from Kagoshima, the mission encountered numerous difficulties, only finally arriving home on 11/21.<ref name=mino/>

Teichû journeyed to China as well, on four occasions.<ref name=mino/>

Teichû journeyed to China as well, on four occasions.<ref name=mino/> While service as Deputy Envoy on a [[tribute]] mission to Beijing in [[1793]], Teichû encountered the mission of [[George Lord Macartney]], the first official British envoy to China. Teichû and his Lead Envoy, [[Mo Kokuto|Mô Kokutô]], were brought aboard Macartney's vessel on the [[Grand Canal]] near [[Hangzhou]], and the three spoke briefly (through interpreters); the meeting is recounted briefly in Macartney's diary.<ref>Maehira Fusaaki, ''Ryûkyû shisetsu no ikoku taiken'' 琉球使節の異国体験, ''Kokusai kôryû'' 国際交流 59 (1992), 61.; J.L. Cranmer-Byng (ed.), ''An Embassy to China: Being the journal kept by Lord Macartney during his embassy to the Emperor Ch’ien-lung 1793-1794'', Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1963, 182-183.</ref>

Mô Teichû's name had originally been Sen'yô (or Sen'yû), but the [[kanji|character]] ''sen'' (lit. "proclaim," "announce") was banned within the kingdom, and so he changed his name to Teichû.

Mô Teichû's name had originally been Sen'yô (or Sen'yû), but the [[kanji|character]] ''sen'' (lit. "proclaim," "announce") was banned within the kingdom, and so he changed his name to Teichû.