On this page: What's what - Puzzle themes - Shopping basket - More about jigsaws - Other puzzle related sites - Bargain maps - Miscellaneous links
This is a guide to all pages in the Shop - use the links at the bottom of the page to explore other parts of the Imaginatorium.
Word search in Imaginatorium Shop
Enter keywords to find words anywhere in the Imaginatorium Shop pages. This matches any of the words, unless you put "+" signs in - or quote (e.g. "puzzle glue") to find an exact phrase. Use the separate search for the whole Imaginatorium site. (Powered by Atomz)
What's what - the navigation links
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Scenic puzzles (photographs)
- Scenic index - Thumbnail guide to scenic puzzle pages
- Cherry blossom : Harbinger of spring
- Flowers : Flowers in the landscape
- Summer : The great outdoors
- Autumn : Dazzling red maples
- Winter : Snow and ice
- Mt. Fuji : Japan's iconic mountain
- Japanese castles
- Temples and shrines : Temple buildings from both Buddhist and Shinto traditions
- Railways : Trains of Japan in art and photography
- Mountain roads : The old routes over Japan's mountainous backbone, and the bridges along them
- Tokyo : Sights of Japan's capital
- Fireworks : Spectacular displays are a regular feature of the summer
- Mizuno : Temples and gardens of Kyoto; photos by Mizuno Katsuhiko
- Morita : Nature photos around Japan by Morita Toshitaka
- Takeuchi : Gorgeous views from the nature photographer Takeuchi Toshinobu
- Scenic 300 : Other scenic puzzles up to 300 pieces
- Scenic 500 : Other scenic puzzles around 500 pieces
- Scenic 1000 : Other scenic puzzles around 1000 pieces
- Scenic 1500+ : Other scenic puzzles 1500 pieces and larger
- Exotic : Exotic locations, in and around Asia
Traditional themes
Illustration - modern styles and cute characters
Fantasy art
The world of anime
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Puzzle themes - Western Art
- Western index - Thumbnail guide to artists and themes
- Mucha : Master of the style of Art Nouveau, Alphonse Mucha
- Thomas McKnight : Characterful scenes, mostly from Europe, painted by this American artist
- Lassen : The work of marine artist Christian Riese Lassen
- Anne of Green Gables : Nippon Animation version of the famous story
- Moomins : The lovable characters from Finnish author Tove Jansson
- Peanuts : Snoopy and the gang: characters from the Charles Schulz strip
- Ellenshaw : Classic paintings of Disney themes by Peter Ellenshaw
- Disney : The whole range of Disney characters
Miscellaneous puzzles
- Miscellaneous - The puzzles that didn't fit in above
- Mandalas : Buddhist maps of the mystic cosmos
- Saotome Taichi : Images of the young actor (b. 1991) in female roles
- Heian period : Images from the great flowering of Japanese culture more than one thousand years ago
- Military history : Characters, incidents, castles, and more from Japanese and Chinese history
- None of the above : Puzzler's puzzles, difficult and different
- Tiny pieces : These puzzles need nimble fingers as well as patience
- Petit : Postcard size, with tiny pieces
Shopping basket
Basket
2 puzzles
View basket
Checkout
Once you have added a puzzle to the basket, extra links appear at the top right corner of the window. (This is just an example, so the links don't work!)
- View basket - You can check the puzzles in the basket, remove one, or empty the basket.
- Checkout - Start the payment procedure. First select the shipping method and destination country, to calculate the final total. On the next page you can check the final details, then make your online payment.
At any stage, if there is a problem or you need to know more, please use the order enquiry form at the bottom of each checkout page.
Feature pages
- Heian period (August 2006)
- Japanese castles (September 2006)
- Mountain roads (April 2007)
- Fireworks (August 2007)
Other pages
- Bargain offers - Reduced prices on selected puzzles
- Top ten - Our best-seller list
- Last chance! - Only one left of each of these puzzles...
- Special orders - When you can't find the puzzle you want, please use this page to ask
- Missing! - When you have the puzzle, but can't find a piece
- Artists - Complete list of artists whose work features on our puzzles
Obsolete pages
Just for completeness... puzzles on the following pages are no longer available.
- The Attic - Complete list of puzzles no longer available
- Wysocki - American primitive painter Charles Wysocki
- Yoshioka - Cute characters by Hideki Yoshioka
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More about jigsaws
- Murals - how to display puzzles on the wall, without needing to buy a frame!
A Beverly puzzle - More about the manufacturers (including box contents, website, product codes): Apollo - Appleone - Artbox - Beverly - Epoch - Road - Tenyo - Yanoman
- A page from some years back - some more historical information about the manufacturers.
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Other puzzle related sites
These are my recommendations, but of course I cannot make any guarantees about the contents of other sites.
The American Jigsaw Puzzle Society website has a good general history of the jigsaw puzzle by D. J. McAdam, whose own web page is also interesting.
Puzzlehistory.com - useful reference site, including a little about Japanese puzzles.
Sonia and Andrew Reynolds' site for collectors: Comprehensive worldwide list - puzzle manufacturers names and addresses
Jack-in-the-Box Puzzles: Scott Stafford's handcrafted made-to-order wooden jigsaw puzzles. This site includes some interesting background material on puzzle cutting.
MGC's Custom Made Wooden Jigsaw Puzzles & Fine Art Gallery: Mark Cappitella makes hand-crafted wooden puzzles for adults and children with 4 to 2,500+ pieces, using personal enlarged photographs, fine art prints, logos and digital images. Each jigsaw puzzle is custom made to order and completely personalized for Weddings, Birthdays, Corporate Events, Anniversary and Holiday gifts. The history page is particularly interesting - Mark thought he had invented wooden puzzles!
PuzzleHouse.com - "Upscale, high quality, hard to find jigsaw puzzles." Located in New Hampshire, USA, this established company offers a pretty good range, particularly of European manufacturers. (No Japanese puzzles though!)
J. C. Ayer & Company Wooden Jigsaw Puzzles - "J.C. Ayer and Company sells heirloom-quality, wooden jigsaw puzzles
featuring fine art reproductions and custom-made puzzles."
Another company producing custom wooden puzzles in Massachusetts. Insteand of being hand-cut like most such puzzles, these are made with Jim Ayer's own design of water-jet cutting machine, which allows him to offer batch production as well.
Custom Puzzle Craft - John Stokes: "Custom wooden jigsaw puzzles cut with an artist's eye".
At oldpuzzles.com Bob Armstrong restores and sells wooden puzzles from the early twentieth century, while at newpuzzles.com his son Conrad Armstrong makes new ones.
Jeannette Aragon in California makes handcrafted wooden puzzles and toys.
Platinum Puzzles craft wooden puzzles in Canaan, New Hampshire.
(I am always adding links to this section, and one day I will organise it properly... )
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Bargain maps
- "THE MAP" - 100 yen bargains - Map Order/Enquiry form - Enlarged samples
- Featured maps: All Japan - Hokkaido - Tohoku - Kanto - Chubu - Kinki - Chugoku - Shikoku - Kyushu
Miscellaneous links
- Tracking packages by EMS (express service): Japanese Post Office - USPS tracking
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