Kusunoki was launched on 5 March 1915 at Kawasaki's shipyard in Kobe and completed on 31 March. During World War I the ship patrolled the area around Singapore and later served as a convoy escort in the Mediterranean Sea.Halpern, p. 393 She was stricken from the navy list in November 1931, decommissioned on 1 April 1932 and subsequently broken up.
