江風, lit. "River Wind".

The personification of the Japanese destroyer [i]Kawakaze[/i] in [[Kantai Collection]].
Character design by [[Kujou Ichiso]], voiced by [[Ishigami Shizuka]].

h4. Personality
Kawakaze has a fiery "delinquent girl"/[[sukeban]] personality.

h4. Appearance
Kawakaze has [[blue eyes]] and [[very_long_hair|very long]] [[red hair]] tied into [[low twintails]] with [[hair_ribbon|red hair ribbons]], wears a white [[hairband]], has very long [[sidelocks]], a long [[ahoge]], and has [[asymmetrical bangs]]. Uniquely among the Kancolle cast she has [[pointy ears]]. 

Her clothing has a distinct black and white contrast with blue trimming, with a white-and-black [[collared_shirt|collared]] [[sleeveless shirt]] half-opened to reveal her [[navel]], blue [[neckerchief]], [[black_gloves|black]] [[fingerless_gloves|fingerless]] [[elbow gloves]], a [[black_skirt|black]] [[pleated skirt]] held by a thick white [[belt]], [[black thighhighs]], and [[loafers]]. She shares many of these characteristics with her sister-ship [[Umikaze (kancolle)|Umikaze]].

Her [[machinery|combat gear]] is unusually painted all black, with a hand-carried, twin-[[turret]] [[cannon]] in her left hand, a [[smokestack]] and antenna mast carried like a backpack, and twin [[torpedo]] turrets on machine arms from the smokestack.

For her [[Kawakaze Kai Ni (Kancolle)|Kai Ni form]], see the respective tag.

For a collaboration with Lawson in September 2016, she was the one designated to wear the employee's uniform. This one uses her 2nd remodel form.

h4. History
The real-life [i]Kawakaze[/i] was the ninth of the [i]Shiratsuyu[/i]-class, and third built to a slightly updated design. She had a more eventful campaign than most Japanese destroyers, and assisted in the sinking of the USS [i]Pope[/i], HMS [i][[Exeter (Azur Lane)|]][/i], and HMS [i]Encounter[/i] in the Second Battle of Java Sea, and rescued 35 survivors. She participated heavily in the Guadalcanal Campaign before she was forced out of combat due to a collision with a cargo ship. After repairs, she was finally sunk on the 7th of August, 1943 in the "Battle of Vella Gulf":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vella_Gulf alongside [i][[arashi (kancolle)|Arashi]][/i] and [i][[hagikaze (kancolle)|Hagikaze]][/i] by combined cannon and torpedo fire from the destroyers USS [i]Dunlap[/i], USS [i][[Craven (Azur Lane)|]][/i], and USS [i][[Maury (Azur Lane)|]][/i]. 169 men, including her captain, were lost.


h5.[i]Kantai Collection[/i]'s [i]Shiratsuyu[/i]-class
* [[shiratsuyu (kancolle)|Shiratsuyu]]
* [[shigure (kancolle)|Shigure]]
* [[murasame (kancolle)|Murasame]]
* [[yuudachi (kancolle)|Yuudachi]]
* [[harusame (kancolle)|Harusame]]
* [[samidare (kancolle)|Samidare]]
* [[umikaze (kancolle)|Umikaze]]
* [[yamakaze (kancolle)|Yamakaze]]
* [b]Kawakaze[/b]
* [[suzukaze (kancolle)|Suzukaze]]

h4. See also
* [[Kawakaze (Azur Lane)]]

h4. External links
* "Wikipedia: IJN [i]Kawakaze[/i]":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_destroyer_Kawakaze_(1936)]
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