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This print, identified only by its provisional caption, belongs to the small editions Waltering produces alongside her photographic and teaching work in Manchester. Mokuhanga in the contemporary British context — as practised at Hot Bed Press in Salford, where Waltering tutors — adapts the Edo-period workshop model to single-artist studios. Rather than the historic division between [hanshita-e](/glossary/hanshita-e) designer, hori-shi carver and suri-shi printer, the contemporary practitioner performs all three roles. This integration affects the visual character of the work: blocks are often cut more sparingly, registration tolerances are looser than in commercial [nishiki-e](/glossary/nishiki-e) production, and the artist's hand at the [baren](/glossary/baren) is more directly evident in the final impression. Waltering's photographic background contributes a sensibility for tonal layering and edge treatment uncommon in older woodblock traditions. The print would be one in a modest edition, hand-numbered and signed in pencil along the lower margin in line with contemporary print conventions.