 As "Enoki" and "Nara" were both commissioned on the same day, the class is also referred to as the .With most of Japan’s destroyers deployed to the Mediterranean Sea as part of Japan’s contribution to the war effort against Imperial Germany under the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, the Imperial Japanese Navy approached the Diet of Japan for an emergency procurement budget, similar to that awarded during the Russo-Japanese War for the production of the destroyers.The funding was awarded from the fiscal 1917 budget, but mindful of the fact that the "Kamikaze"-class destroyers had not actually been completed until after the end of the previous war, the government stipulated that the emergency budget be used up within a six-month period.