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. 12 shown for “Chōbunsai Eishi 鳥文斎栄之” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 13:48 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.

Bellflowers (Asagao), from the series Genji in Fashionable Modern Guise (Fūryū yatsushi Genji: Asagao), by Chōbunsai Eishi 鳥文斎栄之

Bellflowers (Asagao), from the series Genji in Fashionable Modern Guise (Fūryū yatsushi Genji: Asagao)

Chōbunsai Eishi 鳥文斎栄之 · 1789–92

Public domainThe Met
The Courtesan Hanaōgi of the Ōgiya Brothel (Ōgiya Hanaōgi), from the series Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters as Six Floral Immortals (Seirō bijin rokkasen), by Chōbunsai Eishi 鳥文斎栄之

The Courtesan Hanaōgi of the Ōgiya Brothel (Ōgiya Hanaōgi), from the series Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters as Six Floral Immortals (Seirō bijin rokkasen)

Chōbunsai Eishi 鳥文斎栄之 · ca. 1794 (Kansei 6)

Public domainThe Met
Courtesan with Fan and Koto, by Chōbunsai Eishi 鳥文斎栄之

Courtesan with Fan and Koto

Chōbunsai Eishi 鳥文斎栄之 · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Men’s Stomping Dances (Otoko tōka) 男踏歌, by Chōbunsai Eishi 鳥文斎栄之

Men’s Stomping Dances (Otoko tōka) 男踏歌

Chōbunsai Eishi 鳥文斎栄之 · 1798

Public domainThe Met
Three Gods of Good Fortune Visit the Yoshiwara; or “Scenes of Pleasure at the Height of Spring”, by Chōbunsai Eishi

Three Gods of Good Fortune Visit the Yoshiwara; or “Scenes of Pleasure at the Height of Spring”

Chōbunsai Eishi · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
A Man and a Girl Walking in the Rice Fields, by Chōbunsai Eishi

A Man and a Girl Walking in the Rice Fields

Chōbunsai Eishi · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Geisha Preparing for an Entertainment, by Chōbunsai Eishi

Geisha Preparing for an Entertainment

Chōbunsai Eishi · ca. 1794

Public domainThe Met
Oiran and Attendants at the Ō Mon or Great Gate of the Yoshiwara, by Chōbunsai Eishi

Oiran and Attendants at the Ō Mon or Great Gate of the Yoshiwara

Chōbunsai Eishi · ca. 1794

Public domainThe Met
The Willow Shell (Yanagi-kai), from an Untitled Set of Beauty Prints on the Theme of Shells, by Chōbunsai Eishi

The Willow Shell (Yanagi-kai), from an Untitled Set of Beauty Prints on the Theme of Shells

Chōbunsai Eishi · ca. 1791

Public domainThe Met
Ono no Komachi Praying for Rain, by Chōbunsai Eishi

Ono no Komachi Praying for Rain

Chōbunsai Eishi · ca. 1791

Public domainThe Met
Takigawa of the Ōgiya Brothel: The First Reception Room Appointment of the New Year (Hatsu-uri zashiki no zu: Ōgiya Takigawa), from the series A Comparison of Selected Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Seirō bisen awase), by Chōbunsai Eishi

Takigawa of the Ōgiya Brothel: The First Reception Room Appointment of the New Year (Hatsu-uri zashiki no zu: Ōgiya Takigawa), from the series A Comparison of Selected Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Seirō bisen awase)

Chōbunsai Eishi · ca. 1794–95

Public domainThe Met
Print, by Chōbunsai Eishi

Print

Chōbunsai Eishi

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. 58 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 2026-08-27 13:48 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.