Kit by Aoshima, showing 1943 configuration.

• Katori Class.
• Launched 25 September 1939, completed 31 May 1940; in 1945 she was the flagship of the China Coast Escort Squadron; damaged on 30 July 1945 at Maizuru by aircraft of TF38; surrendered in August 1945 and used on repatriation duty until 15 November 1946; broken up at Nagasaki by 15 June 1947.
• Speed: 18 knots.
• Armament: 4 x 5.5-in 50-cal, 6 x 5in 40-cal DP, 20 x 25mm AA.¹

¹Jentschura, Hansgeorg, Dieter Jung, and Peter Mickel. Antony Preston, J.D. Brown, Tr. Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869-1945. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1977. (P. 111)