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[i][[Kantai Collection]][/i]'s personification of the Japanese battleship [i]Yamato[/i]. Character design by [[Shizuma Yoshinori]], voiced by [[Taketatsu Ayana]].

She is portrayed with [[long hair|long]] [[brown hair]] tied to a [[ponytail]], multiple [[cherry blossoms]] in her hair, and [[large breasts]]. 

Her default outfit consists of a [[white shirt]] with [[shoulder cutout]]s and a [[red sailor collar]], [[yellow neckerchief]], grey [[collar]] with a [[kikumon]], a "Z" [[signal flag]] [[armband]], [[red skirt|red]] [[pleated skirt]] with [[hip vent]]s, [[mismatched legwear|mismatched]] [[black socks]] (knee-length on her right, [[black thighhighs|thighhigh]] on her left), AP shells on her [[thigh strap]]s, and [[grey footwear|grey]] [[high heels|high-heeled]] [[rudder footwear]]. She also uses Type 91 AP shell caps as [[breast padding|breast pads]] as shown in her damaged arts. 

Her [[rigging]] consists a headpiece containing her two Type 21 [[radar]]s, and two large hull pieces in a half-circle and held by a funnel to her back, containing all three of her 46 cm triple gun mounts and either four triple 155 mm triple gun mounts (base) or two triple 155 and six 127 mm twin [[anti-aircraft gun]]s (kai). She also uses a [[red umbrella|red]] [[oil-paper umbrella]] patterned off her real-life tripod mast. 


h4. Skins

* !post #1532050: Base
* !post #1578595: [[Yamato Kai (kancolle)|Kai]]
* !post #5416389: [[Yamato Kai Ni (kancolle)|Kai Ni]] (Fast BB)
* !post #5416387: [[Yamato Kai Ni (kancolle)|Kai Ni]] (Aviation BB)
* !post #3226122: [[Yamato (swimsuit mode) (kancolle)|Swimsuit Mode]]
* !post #3368079: Haregi Mode
* !post #3452991: [[Yamato (spring mode) (kancolle)|Spring Mode]]
* !post #7491147: [[yamato_(anniversary)_(kancolle)|Anniversary]]

h4. Personality and history
Because her historical counterpart had a career mostly based around impressing people, Yamato is often depicted as a shy and soft-spoken housewife. Yamato was historically referred to as "Hotel Yamato":/pools/11794 by other members of the IJN who went to the front line, due to the fact that she was never used in combat until late in the war, when defeat was certain. She had war council rooms, (relatively) luxurious quarters for the flag staff, civilians for cooking, hairdressing, and sewing, and even air conditioning, which was unheard of for a Japanese warship.

Yamato only fired her massive 460 mm guns in the battle once during the Battle of Samar to finish off [[Gambier Bay (kancolle)|]], this is the only confirmed kill of Yamato during her entire career. She was sunk on 7 April 1945 during the [[operation_ten-gou|Operation Ten-Go]] desperate counter-offensive, in which she was bombarded with dozens of bombs and torpedoes before being sunk off southern Kyushu.

h4. [i]Yamato[/i]-class battleships
* [b]Yamato[/b]
* [[Musashi (Kancolle)|]]

h4. External links

* "Wikipedia: IJN [i]Yamato[/i]":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Yamato]
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