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Catalogued without a descriptive title, this print is part of Waltering's continuing engagement with mokuhanga as a parallel practice to her work in photography and artist's books. The artist's book tradition — important to her output and to the wider Hot Bed Press community — shares with mokuhanga a concern for paper, registration, and the cumulative effect of layered impressions. Contemporary practitioners often choose mokuhanga over Western relief printing for its water-based, low-toxicity profile, the qualities of [kozo](/glossary/kozo) [washi](/glossary/washi), and the controlled gradients possible with [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) and brushwork on the block. Waltering's prints, like those of other British mokuhanga makers trained through workshops in the 2010s and 2020s, engage with the historical vocabulary of the medium without recreating [ukiyo-e](/glossary/ukiyo-e) subject matter. The work circulates through portfolios, exchanges, and small studio exhibitions rather than through the print-publisher system that supported the Edo-period industry.