In real life, she was the third out of a planned seven-member class but she was the last one completed due to Washington Naval Treaty restrictions. Even then, she took longer to complete as her original hull was damaged beyond repair in an earthquake in 1923 and had to be rebuilt from scratch. At the start of the war, she led the Fourth Destroyer Squadron and operated alongside her sister Jintsuu and the Second Destroyer Squadron. While in an operation in the Indian Ocean on April 1, 1942, she was hit by a torpedo from a US submarine that put her out of action for a year. She then operated under different commands before being sunk alongside Agano in a raid on Truk in February 1944.
