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The ship was built in [[1874]] by Roach and Son of Chester, PA, and was owned by the Pacific Mail Steamship Co., with which [[Robert Walker Irwin]] had previously been employed. Irwin was Hawaiian minister to Japan and special agent of the Hawaiian Bureau of Immigration, and had played a key role in the negotiations allowing Japanese immigration to take place. The ship was 408 feet long and 47 wide, weighing just over 5000 tons, and boasted a single screw, a top speed of 15 knots, compound engines, four masts, and two funnels.

The ship was built in [[1874]] by Roach and Son of Chester, PA, and was owned by the Pacific Mail Steamship Co., with which [[Robert Walker Irwin]] had previously been employed. Irwin was Hawaiian minister to Japan and special agent of the Hawaiian Bureau of Immigration, and had played a key role in the negotiations allowing Japanese immigration to take place. The ship was 408 feet long and 47 wide, weighing just over 5000 tons, and boasted a single screw, a top speed of 15 knots, compound engines, four masts, and two funnels.

Captained by John Maury, it arrived in Honolulu around 9 o'clock in the morning, on February 8, [[1885]], carrying 944 Japanese immigrants, having left [[Yokohama]] roughly two weeks earlier. They included 311 men, 67 women, and 42 children from [[Yamaguchi prefecture]], and 140 men, 43 women, and 39 children from [[Hiroshima prefecture]], and 99 people from Tokyo, with the remainder originating from [[Kanagawa prefecture|Kanagawa]], [[Okayama prefecture|Okayama]], and [[Wakayama prefectures]].<ref>These statistics, as well as tables of the ages of the passengers, and the number who were couples, families, or single individuals, can be found in Odo and Sinoto, 39-40.</ref>

Captained by John Maury, it arrived in Honolulu around 9 o'clock in the morning, on February 8, [[1885]], carrying 944 Japanese immigrants, having left [[Yokohama]] roughly two weeks earlier. They included 311 men, 67 women, and 42 children from [[Yamaguchi prefecture]], and 140 men, 43 women, and 39 children from [[Hiroshima prefecture]], and 99 people from Tokyo, with the remainder originating from [[Kanagawa prefecture|Kanagawa]], [[Okayama prefecture|Okayama]], and [[Wakayama prefectures]].<ref>These statistics, as well as tables of the ages of the passengers, and the number who were couples, families, or single individuals, can be found in Odo and Sinoto, 39-40.</ref> These people came to be known as the ''ikkaisen'' ("first ship"), in contrast to the ''[[gannenmono]]'' who arrived in Hawaii in [[1868]], or to those who came in later years.

Also arriving in Hawaii aboard the ship were Irwin, his wife and daughter, and [[Nakamura Jiro|Nakamura Jirô]], Japan's first consul to the [[Kingdom of Hawaii]], accompanied by his wife, and [[kazoku|Viscount]] [[Torii Tadafumi]], who was to work at the consulate as well. Another of the ship's passengers, [[Nakayama Joji|Nakayama Jôji]], was to go on to become the inspector-in-chief of the Japanese section of the Hawaiian Bureau of Immigration.

Also arriving in Hawaii aboard the ship were Irwin, his wife and daughter, and [[Nakamura Jiro|Nakamura Jirô]], Japan's first consul to the [[Kingdom of Hawaii]], accompanied by his wife, and [[kazoku|Viscount]] [[Torii Tadafumi]], who was to work at the consulate as well. Another of the ship's passengers, [[Nakayama Joji|Nakayama Jôji]], was to go on to become the inspector-in-chief of the Japanese section of the Hawaiian Bureau of Immigration.