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Fujiwara no Teika’s “Poems on Flowers and Birds of the Twelve Months”
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

“The Poem of Fujiwara no Michinobu Ason” from the series The Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyaku’nin Isshu Uba-ga-Etoki)
Artist not stated in the record · 1839

Flowers
Liang Yuwei · Undated

Thatched huts along a shoreline from the Three Dusks
Kano Tan'yu 狩野探幽 (1602-1674) · 1665

“Fourth Month” from Fujiwara no Teika’s “Birds and Flowers of the Twelve Months”
Ogata Kenzan · 1743

Woman with Birds
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1759

“Sixth Month” from Fujiwara no Teika’s “Birds and Flowers of the Twelve Months”
Ogata Kenzan · 1743

Man Dancing
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Man Holding a Sickle
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

Set of wine cups with flowers of the twelve months
Artist not stated in the record

A Man with a Basket of Vegetables
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1759-76

Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi
Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din Jajarmi · dated 741 AH/1340–41 CE

Man with a Sickle
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1759-76

Poems from the Collection of Lady Ise (Ise shū), from the Nishi-Honganji Anthology of Thirty-Six Poets, also known as one of the Ishiyama fragments (Ishiyama-gire)
Fujiwara no Sadanobu · ca. 1112

Loo-rá-wée-re-coo, Bird that Goes to War, a Tapage Pawnee
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

Six Jewel Rivers
Sakai Ōho · ca. 1839

The Peasant's Feast, or, The Twelve Months
Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1547

Poem by Fujiwara no Motozane (ca. 860) from the Series Thirty-Six Poets
Suzuki Harunobu · ca. 1768

Figure with Buckets
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1759

Birds and Flowers of the Twelve Months with Chinese Calligraphy
Kano School · 16th century; sheets of poetry, one dated 1553

A summer month, possibly Vaisakh, folio from a Barahmasa series
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

“Mount Utsu” (Utsu no yama), from The Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari)
Tawaraya Sōtatsu · ca. 1634

Man Dancing with a Mask
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · mid- 18th–late 18th century
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. 59 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 3918908 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-08-28 06:39 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.