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. 15 shown for “Bodhidharma” — 28 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bodhidharma in meditation
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Bodhidharma
Kano Tan'yu 狩野探幽 (1602-1674) · 17th century

Buddhist monk Bodhidharma (Chinese: Damo)
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Portrait of Bodhidharma 達摩圖像
Traditionally attributed to Wuzhun Shifan (傳) 無準師範 (1178-1249) · 14th century

Bodhidharma
Unkoku Tōgan · early 17th century

Bodhidharma crossing the Yangzi on a reed
Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

Bodhidharma
Kano Takanobu · ca. 1610–1618

Bodhidharma
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Table screen with Bodhidharma and landscape of Jinshan Island
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century
Case (Inrō) with Design of Young Woman with Flower Basket of Plum Blossoms (obverse); Four Large Characters (reverse)
Kafu Mochikaze · 19th century
Case (Inrō) with Design of Six Immortal Poets
Kajikawa School · 19th century

Bodhidharma in Red Robes
Kano Masanobu 狩野正信 · late 15th century

Portrait of Bodhidharma
Hakuin Ekaku · mid-18th century

Bodhidharma in Red Robes
Hasegawa Hakujun · 1671
Bodhidharma Seated in Meditation
Artist not stated in the record
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. 40 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 18:54 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.