Print. Charles Wyllie was younger brother of the better-known William Lionel Wyllie, and also a good professional painter.This print is likely to have been produced by arrangement with Armstrong's, who built the 'Katori' and her sister 'Kashima' to mark their launch in 1905 - 'Katori' being the class-name of the pair. They were the last ships built for the Imperial Japanese fleet in British yards and in 1921 both returned to Britain bringing Crown Prince Hirohito on the first-ever official Japanese royal visit abroad. Wyllie painted a pair of large oils commemorating it for Kojiro Matsukata of Kawasaki Shipbuilding, a notable collector of Western art: both are now in the Museum of the Imperial Collections, Tokyo. One shows the ships moored alongside at Portsmouth and was presented by Matsukata's father (who served two terms as Prime Minister of Japan in the 1890s); the other, later purchased to join it, shows their arrival at Spithead with a British destroyer escort.