The envoy ships set sail for Japan a year later, but only one of them, ship first managed to arrived in Tanegashima Island of Japan after being adrift on the sea, and other three ships were wrecked.
翌年帰国の途に就いた遣唐使一行はかろうじて第1船のみが種子島に漂着、残りの3船は難破した。