Jigsaw puzzles from Japan
Rural nostalgia
Featured artist on this page: Ikehara Shōji
The "real" Japan is not to be found in the concrete ugliness of modern Tokyo, nor the somewhat stiffly preserved history of Kyoto, but it is still there, beyond the end of the railway line...
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Ikehara Shōji
Born in Kagawa Prefecture (Shikoku) in 1939, Ikehara is an artist specialising in illustration for children's story book, but whose work has also appeared in TV manga versions of traditional tales, and on postage stamps. His style is simple, but effective.
He signs his pictures with a hand-drawn "seal", which is hard to decipher, but looks like the second character of his given name.
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Deleted puzzles
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