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 “Fujiwara no Teika (Sadaie)” — 17 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 03:45 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.

One Round from a Poetry Contest, by Fujiwara no Teika (Sadaie)

One Round from a Poetry Contest

Fujiwara no Teika (Sadaie) · late 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Manuscript of Waka Poems, by Fujiwara no Teika (Sadaie)

Manuscript of Waka Poems

Fujiwara no Teika (Sadaie) · first half 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Teika’s Ten Styles of Japanese Poetry, by Unidentified

Teika’s Ten Styles of Japanese Poetry

Unidentified · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Fujiwara no Teika’s “Poems on Flowers and Birds of the Twelve Months”

Fujiwara no Teika’s “Poems on Flowers and Birds of the Twelve Months”

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Manuscript Version of “Fundamentals of Poetic Composition” (Eiga taigai), compiled by Fujiwara no Teika (1162–1241), by Konoe Taneie

Manuscript Version of “Fundamentals of Poetic Composition” (Eiga taigai), compiled by Fujiwara no Teika (1162–1241)

Konoe Taneie · 1531

Public domainThe Met
Bun’ya no Asayasu (no. 36), from the series A Pictorial Commentary on One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Hyakunin isshu eshō: Bun'ya no Asayasu), by Utagawa Kunisada

Bun’ya no Asayasu (no. 36), from the series A Pictorial Commentary on One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Hyakunin isshu eshō: Bun'ya no Asayasu)

Utagawa Kunisada · ca. 1844

Public domainThe Met
“Fourth Month” from Fujiwara no Teika’s “Birds and Flowers of the Twelve Months”, by Ogata Kenzan

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

Ogata Kenzan · 1743

Public domainThe Met
“Sixth Month” from Fujiwara no Teika’s “Birds and Flowers of the Twelve Months”, by Ogata Kenzan

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

Ogata Kenzan · 1743

Public domainThe Met
Poem by Gon-Chūnagon Sadaie, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki), by Katsushika Hokusai

Poem by Gon-Chūnagon Sadaie, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)

Katsushika Hokusai · 1760–1849

Public domainThe Met
The Jewel River at Chōfu (Chōfu no Tamagawa), by Suzuki Harunobu

The Jewel River at Chōfu (Chōfu no Tamagawa)

Suzuki Harunobu · ca. 1768

Public domainThe Met
Woman in a Black Kimono, by Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章

Woman in a Black Kimono

Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章 · 1783–89

Public domainThe Met
Mibu no Tadamine (no. 37), from the series A Pictorial Commentary on One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Hyakunin isshu eshō: Mibu no Tadamine), by Utagawa Kunisada

Mibu no Tadamine (no. 37), from the series A Pictorial Commentary on One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Hyakunin isshu eshō: Mibu no Tadamine)

Utagawa Kunisada · ca. 1844

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. 17 matched · 17 examined · 1 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 2026-08-28 03:45 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.