Tenryū (天龍, Heavenly Dragon)[1] was a sail-and-steam corvette of the early Imperial Japanese Navy.

Tenryū was designed as an iron-ribbed, wooden-hulled, three-masted bark-rigged sloop with a coal-fired double expansion reciprocating steam engine with four boilers driving a single screw.

Both ships were designed by French foreign advisors to the early Meiji government in the employ of the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal.

However, even after launching, numerous issues needed to be addressed, including a problem with stability that required the addition of bulges to the hull.

After the war, on 20 October 1906, she was transferred to the Maizuru Naval District, where she served as a utility and training vessel.