Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 24 shown for “Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Six Jewel Rivers from Various Provinces
Utagawa Hiroshige · 1857

Shono from the series 53 Stations of Tokaido
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

Small View of Yedo
Utagawa Hiroshige · 1817–58

Shono from the series 53 Stations of Tokaido
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

Boat on the Sumida
Utagawa Hiroshige · 1817–58

View of Mt. Fuji
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1856

(Untitled)
Utagawa Hiroshige · 1797–1858

Valley View
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

Hamamatsu
Utagawa Hiroshige · 1797–1858

Figures Walking Through the Rain
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

Nagakubo
Utagawa Hiroshige · 1797–1858

Valley View
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

Ōi
Utagawa Hiroshige · 1797–1858

Processional
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

Bow Moon
Utagawa Hiroshige · 1797–1858

Temple Entrance
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

Gate of the Shimbara
Utagawa Hiroshige · 1797–1858

Sunrise on a Bridge
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

Festival at Atsuta Temple
Utagawa Hiroshige · 1797–1858

Fujieda from the series 53 Stations of Tokaido
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

Gion Shrine in Snow
Utagawa Hiroshige · 1797–1858

Scene of the Moat
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

Full Blossom at Arashiyama on the Oi River
Utagawa Hiroshige · 1797–1858

Scene of the Moat
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 687 matched · 24 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 208 matched · 40 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 18:20 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.