Although the message was suspected of a faked letter due to its format, Korea dispatched a responder (the Tsushima Domain gave the Edo bakufu false information that the messenger was an emissary.)
書式から偽書の疑いが生じたものの朝鮮は「回答使」（対馬藩は幕府に「通信使」と偽った）を派遣した。