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This situation lasted a few years, until [[1511]], when, after the defeat of Ashikaga Yoshizumi, and Yoshitane's establishment as shogun, the Ôtomo and Ôuchi made peace with one another, and gave the tallies to the shogunate, to be given or lent out to appropriate parties. Beginning in the 1530s, the Sô clan kept a number of tallies to be used themselves (including for sending imposter envoys).

This situation lasted a few years, until [[1511]], when, after the defeat of Ashikaga Yoshizumi, and Yoshitane's establishment as shogun, the Ôtomo and Ôuchi made peace with one another, and gave the tallies to the shogunate, to be given or lent out to appropriate parties. Beginning in the 1530s, the Sô clan kept a number of tallies to be used themselves (including for sending imposter envoys).

The system finally came to an end in [[1551]]. The Ming Court had been demanding for some years that "Japan" (Ôuchi imposter envoys dominated contact with China, so it was the Ôuchi and not the shogunate the Ming Court was actually in communication with) turn over the offenders in the [[1523]] [[Ningpo Incident]] (an incident in which Ôuchi and [[Hosokawa clan]] ships clashed in Ningpo harbor), and turn in all the [[kango boeki|tallies]], but to no avail. Diplomatic discussion between the Ming Court, and the Ôuchi (pretending to represent the shogunate) then came to loggerheads for a time, until in 1551, [[Sue Harukata]] rose up against his lord and took control of the Ôuchi clan, marking the end of official relations between Ming China and Muromachi Japan.

The system ended around the same time as the end of official relations between Ming China and Muromachi Japan, in [[1551]].

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