The name means marsh wind. Numakaze was the third and last of the Nokaze sub-class of the Minekaze class, built at Maizuru Naval Arsenal. She was laid down on 10 August 1921, launched on 25 February 1922 and commissioned in July 1922 in Destroyer Division 1 with Namikaze, Nokaze and the flagship Kamikaze. The division patrolled the China coast in 1938 and 1939.
At Pearl Harbor she was at the Ominato Guard District, patrolling the Hokkaido and Kuril coasts. At Midway she was in the reserve force for the Aleutians operation, which never left Japanese waters. She patrolled and escorted from Ominato through July 1943, when she was lent to the Fifth Fleet for the Kiska evacuation. She was damaged in a collision with the destroyer Shirakumo on 6 June 1943.
In December 1943 she joined the Combined Fleet and left Moji on 5 December with the 1st Surface Escort Division on a convoy to Taiwan. On 18 December, while chasing the wake of USS Grayback, she was hit by a torpedo, blew up and sank east-northeast of Naha, Okinawa. She was lost with all hands, including the commander of Destroyer Division 1, Commander Yasumasa Watanabe. She was removed from the Navy List on 5 February 1944.
Sources: Wikipedia, Japanese destroyer Numakaze, rewritten here.