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 “Gakutei Harunobu (active ca. 1813-ca. 1868)” — 12 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.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.

Yamabe no Akahito (active 724–736), One of the Three Gods of Poetry From the Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 1
Yashima Gakutei · ca. 1820s

The Gossips
Suzuki Harunobu · ca. 1767

Osen of the Kagiya Teahouse at Kasamori Shrine with a View of Nippori in Yanaka
Suzuki Harunobu · ca. 1768

Two Women, from the series Spring Poems on Ushiwaka for the Year of the Ox (Ushiwaka haru)
Hishikawa Sōri · 1805

Arashi Rikan II as Miyamoto Musashi
Gigadō Ashiyuki 戯画堂芦幸 · 1832

Illustrated Book of Filial Piety
Keisai · 1813

Kabuki Actor Arashi Kitsusaburō II as Kajiwara Heiji, in the play Hiragana seisuiki (Records of the Battles between the Minamoto and Taira Clans in the Japanese Syllabary)
Gigadō Ashiyuki · 1827

Candlestand and Book
Ryūryūkyo Shinsai · probably 1813

The Actors Arashi Kitsusaburō II as the Hairdresser Kamiyui Tasuke, and Arashi Koroku IV as Gonza the Lancer (Yari no Gonza)
Gigadō Ashiyuki 戯画堂芦幸 · 1824

“Enjoying the Evening Cool near Lord Nabeshima’s Warehouses” (Fūryū Nabeshima yūsuzumi)
Jukakudō Masakuni 壽鶴堂政国 · ca. 1825

Six Jewel Rivers
Sakai Ōho · ca. 1839

Study of a Nude Man
Gustave Courbet · early 1840s
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. 12 matched · 12 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 2026-08-28 10:51 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.