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. 19 shown for “Gotō Teijō (Mitsumasa)” — 53 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 07:12 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Knife Handle (Kozuka)
Gotō Teijō (Mitsumasa) · 17th century

Schizothrix calcicola Gomont
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Sep 1949

Knife Handle (Kozuka)
Gotō Teijō (Mitsumasa) · 17th century

Perotrochus metivieri
Artist not stated in the record

Sword-Grip Ornaments (Menuki)
Gotō Teijō (Mitsumasa) · 17th century

Perotrochus indicus
Artist not stated in the record

Set of Sword Fittings (Mitokoromono)
Gotō Teijō (Mitsumasa) · 17th century

Apodemus agrarius
Artist not stated in the record · 24 May 1921

Koto (箏)
Metalwork by Goto Teijo, 9th generation Goto master, Japan · early 17th century

Osmunda lancea Thunb.
Artist not stated in the record

Set of Sword Fittings (Mitokoromono) with Two Additional Knife Handles (Kozuka) and a Pair of Grip Ornaments (Menuki)
Gotō Mitsumasa (Jujō) · early–mid-18th century

Emberiza aureola
Artist not stated in the record · 10 May 1883

Coereba flaveola bonairensis
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Feb 1969

Sword-Grip Ornaments (Menuki)
Gotō Mitsumasa (Jujō) · early–mid-18th century

Charadrius wilsonia cinnamominus
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Feb 1969

Set of Sword Fittings (Mitokoromono)
Gotō Mitsumasa (Jujō) · early–mid-18th century

Dendroica petechia rufopileata
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Feb 1969

Blade and Mounting for a Dagger (Tantō)
Artist not stated in the record · blade, mid-19th century mounting, mid–late 19th century

Sword Guard (Tsuba)
Artist not stated in the record · 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. 13 matched · 13 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. 171 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 2026-08-29 07:12 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.