They were very surprised at the exhibition to see the Satsuma clan, and Kazutsugu MUKOYAMA (the Gaikoku bugyo) and Taichi TANABE (the Shihai kumigashira - a kind of department chief) protested especially strongly and requested the removal of both the name "Ryukyu" from the exhibitor list, and the flag with the mark of "a cross in a circle (the crest of the Shimazu family)," and they also requested the name "His Majesty of the Ryukyu Kingdom, Matsudaira Shuri no daibu (Master of the Office of Palace Repairs), MINAMOTO no Mochihisa" be amended to just "Matsudaira Shuri no daibu."
一行が到着して薩摩藩の出展に大いに驚き、随行した外国奉行向山一履、支配組頭田辺太一らは厳しく抗議し、特に出展者名から「琉球」の二文字と「丸に十字（島津家の家紋）」の旗章を削ること、および「琉球国陛下松平修理大夫源茂久」の名を「松平修理大夫」のみに改めることを求めた。