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The brief title gives little indication of subject and likely reflects a working file name rather than an exhibition title; the title fragment suggests an industrial or mechanical motif treated through hand-pulled woodblock. As a contemporary mokuhanga work by Mitchell, the print would have been pulled on washi with a [baren](/glossary/baren), each colour carried by a separately carved cherry or shina block and aligned through kentō registration. UK practitioners working in this tradition typically apply traditional methods to subject matter outside the historical [bijin-ga](/glossary/bijin-ga), [kacho-e](/glossary/kacho-e) or [meisho-e](/glossary/meisho-e) categories, drawing instead from observed objects, abstraction or personal iconography, and frequently exploiting [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradation to model form without outline. Without verified visual reference the most that can be stated is that the print belongs to the working body of mokuhanga practice that earned Mitchell selection for international juried exhibition at IMC 2024 in Echizen.