Canet gun

The Canet gun aboard the Japanese cruiser Matsushima
The Canet gun on Matsushima. Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1894
A Canet gun equipping the front of the Japanese cruiser Itsukushima

The Canet guns were a series of weapon systems developed by the French engineer Gustave Canet (1846–1908), who worked as an engineer from 1872 to 1881 for the London Ordnance Works, then for Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, and from 1897 to 1907 for Schneider et Cie of Le Creusot.