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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. 12 shown for “Attributed to Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849)” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 10:26 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), or The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei), by Katsushika Hokusai

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), or The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

Katsushika Hokusai · ca. 1830–32

Public domainThe Met
Transmitting the Spirit, Revealing the Form of Things, Volume 1 to 15 of Hokusai Sketchbooks (Denshin kaishu: Hokusai manga, shohen–jugohen) 伝神開手北斎漫画 初編-十五編, by Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Transmitting the Spirit, Revealing the Form of Things, Volume 1 to 15 of Hokusai Sketchbooks (Denshin kaishu: Hokusai manga, shohen–jugohen) 伝神開手北斎漫画 初編-十五編

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 · 1814–78

Public domainThe Met
Random Sketches by Hokusai, Volumes 1 to 11, by Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Random Sketches by Hokusai, Volumes 1 to 11

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Public domainThe Met
Pictures after Nature (Hokusai shashin gafu) 北斎写真画譜, by Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Pictures after Nature (Hokusai shashin gafu) 北斎写真画譜

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 · ca. 1814

Public domainThe Met
Precepts for Women (Ehon Onna imagawa) 絵本女今川, by Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Precepts for Women (Ehon Onna imagawa) 絵本女今川

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 · ca. 1820s

Public domainThe Met
The Legendary Empress Jingū, by Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

The Legendary Empress Jingū

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 · dated 1847

Public domainThe Met
Various Pictures by Hokusai (Hokusai soga) 北斎麁画, by Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Various Pictures by Hokusai (Hokusai soga) 北斎麁画

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 · 1820 (Bunsei 3)

Public domainThe Met
Various Pictures by Hokusai (Hokusai soga) 北斎麁画, by Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Various Pictures by Hokusai (Hokusai soga) 北斎麁画

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 · 1820

Public domainThe Met
Picture Album Transmitting the Spirit: The Hokusai Drawing Style (Denshin gafu Hokusai gashiki), by Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Picture Album Transmitting the Spirit: The Hokusai Drawing Style (Denshin gafu Hokusai gashiki)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 · 1819

Public domainThe Met
Picture Album Transmitting the Spirit: The Hokusai Drawing Style (Denshin gafu Hokusai gashiki), by Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Picture Album Transmitting the Spirit: The Hokusai Drawing Style (Denshin gafu Hokusai gashiki)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 · 1819

Public domainThe Met
Lives of Courtesans at Itako (Itako zekku) 潮来絶句, by Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Lives of Courtesans at Itako (Itako zekku) 潮来絶句

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 · 1802

Public domainThe Met
One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku hyakkei, nihen) 富嶽百景二編, by Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku hyakkei, nihen) 富嶽百景二編

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 · 1834–35

Public domainThe Met
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. 206 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 10:26 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.