Her rigging consists of her funnel and foremast to her back, two hull pieces each containing a 12 cm single gun mount and 25 mm anti-aircraft guns, and depth charges on her ankles.
Sometimes paired with Nenohi due to a faux pas that happened when Kunashiri served as a diplomatic escort for the envoy to Russia. She is named after Kunashir Island (Kunashiri in Japanese), the southernmost of the Kuril Islands between Hokkaido and Kamchatka and one of four in territorial dispute by Japan and Russia.
