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Despite its lengthy descriptive title, this print functions as a commemorative woodblock acknowledgment created by Kenal for Saltgrass Printmakers, the Salt Lake City–based printmaking collective. The integration of legible text into a mokuhanga matrix requires that letterforms be carved in reverse on the block, a discipline that links Kenal's residency training in Echizen to the Japanese tradition of incorporating calligraphic elements within commercial and institutional ephemera. Acknowledgment prints of this type historically extend the pictorial conventions of Edo-period surimono — privately commissioned, often text-bearing prints distributed to a closed audience — into a contemporary nonprofit context. Carving the inscription as a relief surface preserves the haptic qualities of mokuhanga: the baren-burnished impression on washi, the slight halation of water-based pigment along character edges. The work demonstrates how Kenal's MI-LAB training extends beyond purely pictorial subjects to the typographic and dedicatory uses that have always coexisted with image-making in the Japanese woodblock tradition.