A comprehensive guide to the art puzzles: first our top-selling artists, then the artists grouped by theme.
- Complete index to artists: biographical details, and notes on Japanese names
Haruyo
Morita Haruyo: our best-selling artist, her style a "fusion" of East and West. Her subjects are all kimono-clad beauties, but these range from the innocence of youth to the luxuriance of the courtesan.
 Best sellers |
 Latest series: Floral (orchid) |
 Page 2: Seasons (summer) |
 Page 2: Tale of Genji |
 Page 3: Colours (gold) |
Kaname
Ozuma Kaname, an artist in the traditional style...
 Carp |
 Kimono beauties |
 Tigers and dragons |
 Buddhist deities |
Muramatsu
Muramatsu Makoto, animal portraitist - cuteness matched with a wry sense of humour... (mostly smaller puzzles: 300 and 500 pieces)
 Aquarium |
 Panda pipe |
 Bookshelf |
 Maneki-neko |
Kagaya
Kagaya Yutaka, or Joh Kagaya, artist with a claim to astronomical fame (the asteroid Kagayayutaka), portrays fantastic scenes, and conveys the wonder of the night sky with a complete zodiac series.
 Starry blossom |
 Galactic railroad |
 Starlight fantasy (zodiac) |
 Scorpio |
Auspicious themes
 Red Fuji |
 White tiger |
 Cranes |
 Four gods of feng shui |
 Seven gods of fortune |
 Chinese zodiac: 2007 is the Year of the Boar |
Classic styles
 Ukiyo-e (Hokusai) |
 Woodblock print (Yumeji) |
 Hari-e - Yamashita Kiyoshi's naive pointillisme |
 Hari-e - Komiyama, master of paper cuts |
A softer touch
 Rural nostalgia (Tohikazu) |
 Rural nostalgia (Ikehara) |
 Kuroiwa's Jizo portraits |
 Urban nostalgia (Yoshida) |
 Fujishiro Seiji shadow fantasy |
 Hideki Yoshioka cute characters |
 Shinya Uchida watercolour sketches |
Something different
 Stylish portraits (Tsuruta) |
 Heian period feature page |
 Mandalas - Buddhist art |
Fantasy art
 Hiroyuki Suwahara fantasy: gods of wind and thunder |
 Shu Mizoguchi fantasy art |
 Fantasy on European scenes - Teppei |
Anime
 Anime - Evangelion |
 My Neighbor Totoro (Ghibli, 1988) |
 Howl's Moving Castle (Ghibli, 2004) |
Western art
 Alphonse Mucha - master of Art Nouveau |
 Classic Pooh - paintings by Peter Ellenshaw |
 Peanuts - the lovable characters from Charles Schulz |
 Mickey and Minnie and the rest of the world of Disney |
