Special Orders

Apollo-sha

Apollo website: http://www.apollo-sha.co.jp/ (This index page is not very helpful, because there are no thumbnails, but it does show new puzzle releases.)

Peanuts (Charles M. Shulz's ever-popular Snoopy and gang): 2014 pieces (3) - 1000 pieces (20) - 300 pieces (17) - 108 pieces (4)

Gaspard et Lisa (French fantasy creatures): 1000 pieces (3) - 500 pieces (5) - 300 pieces (12) - 108 pieces (12)

3D puzzles: 500 pieces (4) - 108 pieces

Umekichi (wispy portrayal of childhood innocence): 2014 pieces (2) - 1000 pieces (10) - 1000-piece calendar puzzles (1) - 500 pieces - 300 pieces

Detective Conan (TV anime series): 1000 pieces - 500 pieces - 500 large pieces - 300 pieces

Morita Toshitaka (scenic photography): 1000 pieces (7) - 500 pieces (1) - 300 pieces (1)

Ulrike Schneiders (flower photographs): 2014 pieces - 1000 pieces

Fine art: 2014 pieces (1) - 1000 pieces

Apollo also have a large range of Educational toys: here is a list of the main links - you will need to experiment with clicking the coloured links at the bottom of the second level pages (which are all images, so machine translation services are no real help, unfortunately). Please ask if you are looking for specific children's puzzles, for example for learning hiragana or katakana.

Cube puzzles (block puzzles) - Panorama puzzles (three-panel simple puzzles) - Children's puzzles (click the piece counts, from 10 to 63) - Wooden shape puzzles (click the logos at the bottom: Dick Bruna, Thomas the Tank Engine, etc)

Icons used on the Apollo site for puzzle features

108 pieces 108 large pieces 300 pieces 300 pieces + paper hologram 500 pieces

500 large pieces 950 pieces 1000 pieces 1000-piece calendar puzzles 2014 pieces

(Updated July 2011)

Appleone

The Appleone website is here: www.appleone.co.jp. Check for updates: Latest puzzles.

It's probably best to start at the puzzle index, which includes some thumbnail links. Each of the following links shows a topic or artist, with ten puzzles on each page. Use the '0|1|2' links at the bottom of each page to see more.

Japanese art

Ozuma Kaname - Ogasawara Etsuko - Ishikawa Mari - Yoshida Hatsusaburo - Other traditional

Illustration

Shu Mizoguchi - Iwasaki Chihiro - Fujishiro Seiji - Yoshitaka Amano - Fantastic collection (glowing cottages) - Liliana Frasca - Nagaoka Taku - Tanikawa Hiroyuki - Nakayama Jun'ichi - Mandalas - Collections (banknotes and coins) - Maps - Other art

Characters

Akatsuka Fujio (comic artist) - Model cars and trains - Sugar bunnies

Scenic

Mt. Fuji - Kyoto - Rest of Japan - World scenery - Racehorses - Pets - Outer space

Flowers

Fortune flowers - Flowers (photographs)

Miscellaneous puzzles

Easy puzzles - Mirror puzzles

Icons used on the Appleone site for puzzle features

Large pieces Silky cloth finish Pieces are numbered on the back Glow-in-the-dark Diamond screen super-high quality printing

Vivid six-colour printing High-intensity printing inks Puzzle includes "Apple" piece Compact box Budget series

(Updated April 2011)

Artbox

The Artbox website is here: http://www.sky-field.net. The catalog index and latest puzzles list are not easy to use, because there are no thumbnails, and you need to be able to find names in Japanese phonetic order. The following links lead to the puzzle listings which show a topic or artist, with ten puzzles on each page. Use the '0|1|2...' links at the top of each page to see more. Click the thumbnail for a bigger view.

The small numbers in parenthesis show the approximate number of puzzles in each category. (These may be missing or out of date; the Artbox catalog is updated frequently, and categories often come and go.)

Names starting a-i-u-e-o

Airou (Monster Hunter) - Blue Exorcist - Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai - Arakawa Under the Bridge (2) - Inazuma Eleven (5) - InuYasha (2) ("a Feudal Fairy Tale") - IS <Infinite Stratos> - Where's Wally? (4) - Three sisters (4) (TV anime Uchi no san-shimai) - Space Battleship Yamato (1) - Ultraman (15) - Angel Beats (3) - Evangelion (9) - Only Yesterday (1) (Miyazaki animation) - My little sister (3) (Light novel: Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai)

Names starting ka-ki-ku-ke-ko

Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger (4) - Kaibutsu-kun (Anime and manga character ("Little monster")) - Nausicaä (7) - Reborn! - Capybara - The World God Only Knows - Kamen Rider Series - The Borrower Arrietty (15) (Miyazaki animation) - Karl and the amazing tower - Ponyo on the cliff by the sea (22) (Miyazaki animation) - Gundam - Kireizukin Seikatsu (1) (Lazy Racoon becomes "Kireizukin" - tidy housewife - when mole teacher "mogura sensei" covers her head with a red riding hood) - Gintama ("Silver Soul") - Kutsushitanyanko - Bear school - Kuruneko (Cartoon cat from blog) - Porco Rosso (2) (Miyazaki animation) - Tales of Earthsea (1) (Miyazaki animation) - Ghost in the Shell - Kokurikozaka kara (Miyazaki animation) - Coji-Coji - Dwarfs galary

Names starting sa-shi-su-se-so

Sanrio characters (8) - Sika (Character from Finnish author Julia Vuori) - Jewelpet - Suite PreCure - Studio Ghibli (192) (Shows all of the Miyazaki animations) - Studio Ghibli frames - Sponge Bob - The Smurfs - Saint Seiya (Also known as Knights of the Zodiac) - Sesame Street - Spirited away (5) (Miyazaki animation) - The tragedy of Mr Soft (ice cream) - Anpan-man

Names starting ta-chi-tsu-te-to

Tamagotchi (1) - Little Battlers eXperience (4) - Cheburashka (7) (Чебурашка​, Russian animated character) - Chibi Maruko-chan - Chopper - The Prince of Tennis - Laputa, castle in the sky (10) (Miyazaki animation) - Tensou Sentai Goseiger - Durarara!! - A Certain Scientific Railgun - To Aru Hikūshi e no Tsuioku (Memories of a certain pilot) - Toaru Majutsu no Index (Light novel: "A Certain Magical Index") - Togainu no Chi (Visual novel: lit. "Blood of the reprimanded dog") - Hamtaro - My Neighbor Totoro (82) (Miyazaki animation) - Transformers Animated (2) - Toriko - Doraemon - Dragon Quest - Dragon Ball Z Kai - Dragonball Z (11)

Names starting na-ni-nu-ne-no

Naruto - 20th Century Boys - Nintama Rantarō - Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan - The Cat Returns (1) (Studio Ghibli animation)

Names starting ha-hi-fu-he-ho

Howl's moving castle (7) (Miyazaki animation) - Fullmetal Alchemist - Hakuōki - Happy Tree Friends - Hanakappa (Children's educaional anime) - Hanasaku Iroha - Hello Kitty (2) - HeartCatch PreCure! - Bakugan Battle Brawlers New Vestroia - Bakuman - The Powerpuff Girls - Aria the Scarlet Ammo - Hime-chen (2) (Children's anime) - Big Comic Spirits - Piramekino - Fate-stay-night - Fujiko F. Fujio characters (Creator of Doraemon and others) - Fresh Pretty Cure! - Black * Rock Shooter - Bleach - Pom Poko (2) (Miyazaki animation) - BOW (Pictures of cars; possibly 'BOW' is an artist) - Pocket Monsters (36)

Names starting ma-mi-mu-me-mo

The Adventures of Hutch the Honeybee (Anime series) - My Melody - Kiki's Delivery Service (27) (Miyazaki animation) - Puella Magi Madoka Magica - Magical girl Lyrical Nanoha - Bush beans - Mayoi Neko Overrun! ("Stray Cat Overrun!" light novel series ) - List of Mario games by year - Marble Mascot - Got you - Whisper of the Heart (6) (Miyazaki animation ) - Muramatsu Makoto (7) - The Moomins - Moshidora (1) (Full title: What If the Woman Manager of a High School Baseball Team read Drucker's "Management"?) - Princess Mononoke (10) (Miyazaki animation) - Monster Hunter Diary: Poka Poka Airu Village

Names starting ra-ri-ru-re-ro

LOVE character - Little Twin Stars - Rilakkuma (relaxing bear) - Rody

Names starting wa

One Piece (131) (TV animation) - Working!! (5) (Comic manga series)

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous puzzles - Puzzle frames

Puzzles by category

42 pieces - 70 pieces - 108 pieces (75) - 108 large pieces - 208 pieces (4) - 300 pieces (130) - 300 large pieces (20) - 352 pieces - 500 pieces - 500 large pieces - 950 pieces (panorama) - 1000 pieces (95) - 1000 small pieces - 1000 large pieces (4) - 2000 pieces (2) - 330-piece Art crystal (4) - Illuminated puzzles 150 pieces - 68-piece mini-puzzle (42) - 150-piece mini-puzzle (188) - 150-piece mini-puzzle with tumbler (14) - Puzzle sets (15, 35, 54, 80 pieces) - Miscellaneous (50)

(Updated October 2011)

Beverly

The Beverly website (www.be-en.co.jp) is easy to navigate, with thumbnails: Puzzle index. Check for updates: Latest puzzles.

The following links go directly to the puzzles for each topic or artist; these are mostly rather broad categories, and there may be many pages in the category. Use the 'PREV' and 'NEXT' buttons to navigate through them. You can also use the piece-count buttons at the top ("108 300 500 1000") to narrow down to the size you are interested in.

The small numbers in parenthesis show the approximate number of puzzles in each category.

Main puzzle menu

Lassen (26) - Yuseki Miki (26) (Jizo and others) - Tiny pieces (269) - Bath puzzles (8) (Waterproof puzzles you can do in the bath!) - Tiny pieces (21) (with magnifying glass!) - Shape puzzles (24) - Military history (7) - Hiroshi Watanabe (13) - McKnight (7) - Art fantasy (17) (Artists Kazuha Fukami, Takaki) - Art collection (35) - Cartoon characters (155) (Chibi Gallery, Gundam, Monster Hunter, Suzy's zoo and more) - Traditional Japanese art (20) - Pets (41) - Thomas Kinkade (7) - Flowers and gardens (12) - Scenic puzzles (124) - Art classics (25) (heartful series) - Miscellaneous (13) - Magnifying glasses (2) (for tiny pieces!)

Icons used on the Beverly site for puzzle features

New! Glow-in-the-dark Vivid six Paper hologram Transparent holographic film surface Art canvas effect Double-interlocking Gold metallic film surface

Silver metallic film surface Metallic paper Platinum metallic paper Printed on natural cork With accompanying magnifying glass Small pieces Tiny pieces Compact box

(Updated January 2012)

Epoch

The Epoch website is fairly easy to view, with thumbnails everywhere. But instead of each category of puzzles being on a separate page, they are arranged on enormous pages, and occasionally a category may continue onto the next page. Each of the links below should jump to the right point within the page, but if you reach the bottom of the page, try clicking the 次ページ link for the next page. See the example on the right...

Each genre has an index page — the (list) link — but unless you can read Japanese the list of topics included will not be much help.

The small numbers in parenthesis show the approximate number of puzzles in each category. (These may be inaccurate or missing.)

Puzzle index - Latest puzzles

Puzzles by genre

Marine fantasy (list): Christian Riese Lassen (29)

Art (list): Yasukawa Shinji (4) - Kuroiwa Toyotaka (2) - Auspicious painting (6) - Harai Kayomi (24) - Mandalas (7) - Morita Haruyo (23) - Kimura Keigo (2) - Nakajima Chinami (1) - Yoshida Keiji (13) - Oda Yoshio (4) - Peter Motz (10) - Sasakura Teppei (9) - Kentaro Nishino (26) - Wildlife (5) - Fairies - Western classics (30) - Woodblock prints (3) (Ukiyo-e masterpieces) - Kirk Reinert (3) - Auspicious emblems (1) - Charles Wysocki (2) - Watase (6) - Coca Cola posters

Characters (list): Sylvanian families - Devil Kings (14) (known in Japan as Sengoku Basara) - Suzumiya (14) - Lucky Star - Racehorses - Wasao (dog character)

Pets (list): Puppies (30) - Kittens (24) - Rabbits (4) - Pandas

Flowers (list): Colour therapy - Flower arrangements - Aroma puzzles (2)

Scenic (list): Spring (11) - Early summer - Autumn (13) - Winter - Night views - Fireworks - Floral landscape - Gardens - Temples (18) - Castles (11) - Waterfalls - Mt. Fuji (13) - Tokyo tower (6) - World views - World heritage (64) - Tropical resort (7) - Flower gardens - Street flowers - Railway journey - Power spots (6) - Characterful cats

Transport (list): Trains - Battleships - Space exploration

Personalities (list): Saotome Taichi (female impersonation actor)

Historical (list): Historical figures

Maps (list): Maps (2) - More maps

Monotone collection (list): Robert Doisneau (1) - Kim Anderson

"Expert" series

Ultra-expert - Double-sided super-expert (10) - Super-expert - Combination 1500+400 puzzles - Expert - Expert panorama format - Want-to-be-expert - Slightly expert

Puzzles by piece count

108 pieces (13) - 108 large pieces - 216 small pieces - 300 pieces - 420 small-piece panorama (18) - 450 small pieces - 500 pieces - 759 small pieces (13) - 954 pieces (panorama) - 1000 pieces - 1014 small pieces (9) - 1500 small pieces (60) - 1500 + 400 small pieces (14) - 1518 small pieces (24) (panorama) - 2000 pieces (4) - 2016 small pieces (60) - Double-sided 2016 small pieces (7) - 3000 small pieces (16)

Icons used on the Epoch site

Piece counts for standard size pieces

Small pieces

Very small pieces

Large pieces

Very large pieces

(Updated June 2011)

Road

The Road brand is produced by an elusive company called Kezuka, who have no website, and only produce new paper catalogs occasionally. They have a good range of scenic puzzles, generally of particularly high quality, plus Moomin Characters, and cartoon versions of: Heidi, Raccoon Rascal, Anne of Green Gables.

Please ask with any specific requests – meanwhile it may help to look at these scans of the 2006-2007 catalog "Character" puzzles, 300-2000 pieces:
Page 1 (300 pcs) - Page 2 (300/500 pcs) - Page 3 (950 panorama / 1000 pcs) - Page 4 (1000 pcs) - Page 5 (1000/2000 pcs)

NB This is the latest catalog we have, and not all of these are available. We will update when we can.

Tenyo

Tenyo website: jigsaw puzzle introduction page - main catalog page

The Tenyo site is not easy to navigate. In almost all cases, there is no thumbnail index — so each of the following links leads to a page with a list of titles in Japanese, and you will need to click them one by one to see the puzzles. They are ordered by Japanese title, with different sizes mixed up together. The exception is the thumbnail list of new Disney puzzles which you may find useful: Latest Disney puzzles

The small numbers in parenthesis show the approximate number of puzzles in each list. (Note that these may be missing or out of date, and also many lists overlap.)

Disney puzzles by character

Mickey and Minnie (50) - Mickey and friends (83) - Disney babies (21) - Pooh and friends (46) - Classic Pooh (1) (Art by Peter and Harrison Ellenshaw) - Baby Pooh (8) - Alice in Wonderland (8) - Ariel (2) - Snow White (1) - Cinderella (1) - Beauty and the Beast (1) - Princess collection (8) - All characters (50) - Villains (2) - Toy Story (4) - Nightmare before Christmas (5) - Lilo and Stitch (51) - Pirates of the Caribbean (6) - Cars (4) - Ratatouille (3)

Disney puzzles by size

108 pcs (72) - 144 pcs (7) - 200 pcs (14) - 300 pcs (42) - Crystal + Small pieces (10) ("Stained art gyutto" 266 pcs) - 315 small pcs (8) - 500 pcs (42) - 500 small pcs (14) - Most difficult (2) (World's most difficult 500 pieces) - 950 panorama (18) - 1000 pcs (67) - 1000 pcs crystal (3) ("Stained art") - 1000 tiny pcs (11) - 2000 pcs (20) - 2000 small pcs (4) - 4000 pcs (5) - Heart-shaped 180 pcs (17) - Heart-shaped 307 pcs (4) - Other sizes (19)

Disney: special features and series

Photo frame insert (13) - Glow-in-the-dark (51) - Paper hologram (24) - Calendar puzzles (2) - Crystal hologram (13) - Whimsies (2) (Silhouette pieces) - Fragrance (1) - "Best friends" (3) - "A little encounter" (5) - "Still in my mind" (8) - Metamorphosis of Mickey (1) - Tiny pieces (11) (World's smallest ) - Crystal (5) ("Stained art") - Crystal + Small pieces (10) ("Stained art gyutto" 266 pcs) - Crystal + Small pieces (12) ("Stained art gyutto") - Crystal (3) ("Stained art" 1000 pcs) - Mystic art (2) - World's most difficult (2) - Vivid six (6) ("Vivid magic") - Small pieces (4) ("Gyutto size") - Zzzzz... (8) (dreaming series) - Cork (6) - "Colours of light" (3) - Lumina magic (3) (Glows in the dark with a different picture) - Square pose (3) - Art illusion (2) (Full-colour glow-in-the-dark) - Modern Japanese style (2) - Heart-shaped crystal (8) - Message puzzle (8) - Cubic mouth (6) - Hidden images (3) - Lenticular 3D - Magic Eye (Autostereogram 3D images) - 3D images (using stereo glasses) - Best-loved story of Winnie the Pooh (in attractive book package)

Non-Disney puzzles

Heart-shaped Sanrio "stained art" (4) - Miffy 55th birthday (2) - Memories of Showa (2) - Ghosts (3) (Hokusai prints) - Rhythm of Salsa (2) - Emi Mariduki (4) (small-piece crystal puzzles) - Emi Mariduki (4) (four seasons) - World's most difficult (1) - Art classics (3)

Icons on puzzle list pages: the website indications of availability are not always reliable, but here they are:

In stock (shown by a shopping cart on the individual puzzle pages)

Out of stock (similar message in red on the individual puzzle pages)

Note: The Tenyo product codes all include the piece count. E.g. D-1000-245 is a 1000-piece puzzle.

(Updated June 2011)

Yanoman

Yanoman website: http://www.yanoman.com

The Yanoman site has separate catalogs (also accessible with the tabs at the top of the Yanoman page) for different types of puzzle.

The small numbers in parenthesis show the approximate number of puzzles in each category. (These may be missing or out of date.)

Regular puzzles

"Petit" series: Double postcard size 500 (67) - Postcard size 99 (63) ("Petit light") - Postcard size 204 (113) ("Petit")

Special selection: Small-piece puzzles (53) - Budget packaged puzzles (21)

Simple puzzles: Fun puzzles (20-96 pieces) - Warabe Kimika - Jumbo puzzles

Scenic puzzles: Tokyo Sky Tree (19) - Four seasons (24) - Train journey (3) - Travel views (4) - Worldwide (15) - Japan (17)

Art puzzles: Kagaya Yutaka (25) - Shinya Uchida (1) - Kajita Tatsuji (6) - Ozuma Kaname (4) - K-saku (32) (Kanji art from Ikkudou) - Matsumoto (3) - Senko (2) - Zigen Tanabe (3) - Tsuyoshi Nagano (2) - Mizumori Ado (6) - Norman Rockwell (Covers of the Saturday Evening Post) - Alphonse Mucha (2) (art nouveau) - Classics of western art (20) - Japanese art (4) - Mandalas

Character puzzles: Wachifield (47) - Hello Kitty (9) - Pocket Monsters (19) - Evangelion (13) - Penelope - Gundam (7) - Worldwide animation - Anime and video games

Pets: Lovely animals

Flowers: Blooming collection

Miscellaneous: Transport (2) - Celebrities - Two-sided (8) - Maps (6)

Accessories: Puzzle glue and storage

Spherical puzzles

Astronomy: Heavenly bodies (15) - The earth (5)

Characters: Disney Studios - Hello Kitty (9) - Pocket monsters - Wachifield - Doraemon

Miscellaneous: Art stand puzzles - Money-box puzzles (cylindrical puzzles) - Lucky Daruma (2) - Heart puzzles - Tower puzzles (Big Ben, Pisa, etc) - "Insight" series - Tokyo Sky Tree

Anime catalog

Anime, manga and game characters: Evangelion - Macross Frontier - Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha - Fairy Tail - Little Busters! - Love plus - Angel Beats! - Rewrite - Da Capo - T P Sakura - Persona series (RPG) - Hetalia: Axis Powers - Big Windup! - Princess Lover

Disney catalog

Postcard size puzzles: Stitch (1) - Mickey and friends (34) - Pooh (1) - Pixar - Others (8) - Disney frames (for "Petit" puzzles)

Petit² (Double postcard size tiny puzzles): Mickey and friends - Frames for Disney Petit²

Wooden puzzles: Stitch - Mickey and friends

3D puzzles: Big face - Art stand puzzles - Heart-shaped puzzles - Money-box puzzles - Spherical puzzles (26)

(Updated July 2011)