In August or September of that year, Murata went to Yamaguchi together with Kiyotaka KURODA and saw Takachika MORI, a feudal lord of the Choshu clan, and on September 7, after seeing Kuroda off, Murata left Nagasaki on a ship to Shanghai City with Hirobumi ITO and went back to his domain after his return home.
同年7月、黒田清隆らと山口に赴いた村田は、長州藩主毛利敬親に謁し、黒田と別れた後の29日、伊藤博文らとともに長崎を出航して上海市を訪問し、帰国後に帰藩した。