Key value factors: As self-carved and self-printed works, sosaku-hanga value is tied to the artist's reputation and edition size. Larger formats, earlier editions, and historically significant works command the highest prices.
A Man Burns Limes is a woodblock print whose unusual title describes a specific and peculiar activity: the burning of citrus fruit. Lime burning was historically a process for producing quicklime, a caustic substance used in construction, agriculture, and sanitation. Nakao Yoshitaka renders this laboring figure engaged in a task that is both mundane and alchemical, transforming organic matter into mineral through fire. The woodblock medium captures the scene with the directness appropriate to manual labor, the carved lines carrying the physical weight of the work being depicted. The title's specificity grounds the print in a particular trade that most viewers would never otherwise encounter.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
A man burns limes was created by Nakao Yoshitaka (中尾義隆).
A man burns limes depicts figures, craftspeople, and daily life.
![[Grey Figure Posing] by Nakao Yoshitaka](https://1.api.artsmia.org/800/135848.jpg)
