title: Amatsukaze
text: # Amatsukaze
  
  Amatsukaze may refer to:
  
  ## Ships
  
  * Japanese destroyer Amatsukaze (1916), an Imperial Japanese Navy Isokaze-class destroyer launched in 1916, completed in 1917, and scrapped in 1935
  * Japanese destroyer Amatsukaze (1939), an Imperial Japanese Navy Kagerō-class destroyer launched in 1939 and commissioned in 1940 that served in World War II and was sunk in 1945
  * JDS Amatsukaze (DDG-163), a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer, the only one of her class, launched in 1963 and in commission from 1965 to 1995
  
  ## People
  
  * Amatsukaze Masao (born 1937), Japanese sumo wrestler
  