In the winter of the year, it was decided that the embassy led by the senior envoy Takeuchi Shimotsuke no kami would be dispatched to European countries and that Yukichi would accompany the embassy.
同じ年の冬、竹内下野守を正使とする使節団を欧州各国へ派遣することとなり、福澤もこれに同行することとなった。