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Catalogued under a generic attribution caption, this print is one in Waltering's ongoing mokuhanga output. The artist's biography — undergraduate and masters degrees in Manchester, a senior lectureship at Manchester School of Art, and tutoring at Hot Bed Press — situates her work within the British print studio tradition rather than within Japanese workshop practice. Mokuhanga in this context is approached as a chosen technique rather than an inherited craft. Waltering's contribution to the field is partly pedagogical: teaching photography and tutoring printmaking, she introduces students to relationships between lens-based reproduction and the multiple registered impressions of relief printing. The print itself, in the absence of a descriptive title, asks to be evaluated on its handling of registration, the quality of [kento](/glossary/kento) alignment, the management of [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradients across the sheet, and the choice of paper. These are the formal coordinates by which contemporary mokuhanga is typically assessed within studio communities and print exchanges.