OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

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

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Six Jewel Rivers from Various Provinces, by Utagawa Hiroshige

Six Jewel Rivers from Various Provinces

Utagawa Hiroshige · 1857

Public domainThe Met
Shono from the series 53 Stations of Tokaido, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Shono from the series 53 Stations of Tokaido

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Small View of Yedo, by Utagawa Hiroshige

Small View of Yedo

Utagawa Hiroshige · 1817–58

Public domainThe Met
Shono from the series 53 Stations of Tokaido, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Shono from the series 53 Stations of Tokaido

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boat on the Sumida, by Utagawa Hiroshige

Boat on the Sumida

Utagawa Hiroshige · 1817–58

Public domainThe Met
View of Mt. Fuji, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

View of Mt. Fuji

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
(Untitled), by Utagawa Hiroshige

(Untitled)

Utagawa Hiroshige · 1797–1858

Public domainThe Met
Valley View, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Valley View

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hamamatsu, by Utagawa Hiroshige

Hamamatsu

Utagawa Hiroshige · 1797–1858

Public domainThe Met
Figures Walking Through the Rain, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Figures Walking Through the Rain

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nagakubo, by Utagawa Hiroshige

Nagakubo

Utagawa Hiroshige · 1797–1858

Public domainThe Met
Valley View, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Valley View

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ōi, by Utagawa Hiroshige

Ōi

Utagawa Hiroshige · 1797–1858

Public domainThe Met
Processional, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Processional

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bow Moon, by Utagawa Hiroshige

Bow Moon

Utagawa Hiroshige · 1797–1858

Public domainThe Met
Temple Entrance, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Temple Entrance

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gate of the Shimbara, by Utagawa Hiroshige

Gate of the Shimbara

Utagawa Hiroshige · 1797–1858

Public domainThe Met
Sunrise on a Bridge, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Sunrise on a Bridge

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Festival at Atsuta Temple, by Utagawa Hiroshige

Festival at Atsuta Temple

Utagawa Hiroshige · 1797–1858

Public domainThe Met
Fujieda from the series 53 Stations of Tokaido, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Fujieda from the series 53 Stations of Tokaido

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gion Shrine in Snow, by Utagawa Hiroshige

Gion Shrine in Snow

Utagawa Hiroshige · 1797–1858

Public domainThe Met
Scene of the Moat, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Scene of the Moat

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Full Blossom at Arashiyama on the Oi River, by Utagawa Hiroshige

Full Blossom at Arashiyama on the Oi River

Utagawa Hiroshige · 1797–1858

Public domainThe Met
Scene of the Moat, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Scene of the Moat

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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.