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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 alignment, the management of 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.