If you like Japanese woodblock prints, consider using them to decorate your desktop! We use them as animated start up logos and boot screens, wallpaper, and screen savers. Customize Windows with woodblock prints by Hiroshige, Hokusai and many other favorite artists.
 
We have boot screens for Windows 3x, Windows 95/98 and ME, Windows 2000 and Windows XP!

Enjoy the snow! --   Slow down and take a few minutes to enjoy some of our favorite Japanese woodblock print snow scenes by Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi and Hasui Kawase. You have a choice of Java-enhanced scenes or non-Java.
 
We've saved six of these scenes in our own little animated falling snow screensaver! These images will work beautifully with any of the custom screensavers we feature here.
 
(The snowy java, by the way is by Arts Logic Computer. * )
 

Check out our falling snow screensavers! We've updated most of our Java animated woodblock print screensavers so they will run on Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME and XP.
 
Get our Six Views With Falling Snow, Koson's Carp in Rippling Water, Sozan's Spring Beauty with falling petals, and Yoshitoshi's Leaves with floating autumn leaves on our free Screen Saver pages.
 
** Don't miss Winter Lace , our animated falling snow screensaver featuring this lovely snowscene by photographer Jan Fox. Click here for a larger preview, or click here for a smaller preview .
 
These are teeny, tiny and self-installing.
 

Pick up some of our animated opening logo screens for Windows95/98/ME.
 
Installation is easy. You'll find instructions with the zipped file. Select from works by Hiroshige, Hokusai, Yoshitoshi, Koson, and Hasui, with animated color bar.
 

NEW! Windows 2000 users will find it easy to replace the start up logo with woodblock print images, too. We have several in the required 16 color format for use with Win2k, and provide a link to BootLogo, a free tool to install the new image as a boot screen for Windows 2000. Start Windows with Hiroshige. BootLogo really makes it a snap.

NEW! WindowsXP users can also replace the original start up logo using BootLogo. We have several images in the required 16 color format for use with WinXP, and provide a link to BootLogo on the same page. Take a look at what we have here for WindowsXP. Let Yoshitoshi open your Windows!

Win3x users can replace the opening start up logo with woodblock print images, too. We have several in the required .rle4 format for use with Win3x, and provide instructions on how to install the new image as a replacement boot screen for Windows3x. Isn't Kuniyoshi cool?

Check out our favorite free screensavers for Windows -- fully working, fully customizable, fully freeware. Customize them with your own pictures or use ours. Enjoy six landscapes by Hiroshige, and beautiful women by Chikanobu and Kotondo from our Screen Saver page. They make great wallpaper, too! We also have screen savers featuring Koson's Carp, Yoshitoshi's Leaves, Sozan's Spring Beauty, and Six Views with Falling Snow.

Try one of our favorite fractal images by Linda Allison, prepared as a fully animated start up logo for Windows 95/98/ME. Imagine this start up logo with the entire screen animated as you start Windows.

Jupiter is another favorite fractal image by Julian Adamaitis, Fractelligent Designs. Picture starting your computer with all of these colors animated as your start up logo for Windows 95/98/ME.

Enmeshed conveys a quiet sense of mystery. This breathtaking fractal image by Ron Barnett seems to unfold itself in an ever increasing revelation of hidden depths.

We've finally put together a Links page. "Ukiyo-e: The Pictures of the Floating World" by Hans Olof Johansson tops our list, but you really wouldn't want to miss the thrilling perspective of printmaker David Bull or the detailed presentations by John Fiorello.
 
We also provide links to some of our favorite museums and free software, such as this delightfully animated Autumn Moon screen saver by photographer Jan Fox. Click here for the complete list of links.

* Learn more about the cool little "alcsnow" applet at Arts Logic Computer in Japan.

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