The was a Japanese steam frigate of the Bakufu

Tokugawa shogunate

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 Navy. She was built in New York

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, USA, in 1864, and was acquired by the Bakufu on April 28, 1868. She was equipped with side wheels for propulsion, and a gun in the bows, a design which was already obsolescent at that time.

She was one of the four ships remitted by Enomoto Takeaki

Enomoto Takeaki

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 to the Imperial forces, before he fled to Hokkaidō

Hokkaido

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, suggesting that her performance was not so impressive. After the Meiji restoration

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, she was incorporated in the newly formed Imperial Japanese Navy

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in July 1869. She became a 4th class warship (四等艦) on November 15, 1871, and a third-class warship on November 20, 1874. She was thereafter only used as a training ship, until her decommission on May 10, 1889. She was sold for scrap in 1896.