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. 11 shown for “Ike (Tokuyama) Gyokuran” — 11 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 16:08 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.

Peony and Bamboo
Ike (Tokuyama) Gyokuran · ca. 1768

Warbler in a Plum Tree
Ike (Tokuyama) Gyokuran · mid- to late 18th century

Autumnal Landscape with a Waterfall
Ike (Tokuyama) Gyokuran · second half of the 18th century

Orchid Pavilion Gathering; Autumn Harvest Festival
Ike no Taiga · ca. 1763

Finger Painting of a Landscape
Ike no Taiga · 18th century

Letter Addressed to Itō Kakō
Ike no Taiga · 1759

Wintry Landscape, in the Style of Guo Zhongshu
Ike no Taiga · late 18th century

Spring Clouds Arising from the Gorge
Ike no Taiga · 1770

Two Poems from the Collection of Ancient and Modern Poems (Kokin wakashū)
Ike no Taiga · 1734

The Thousand-Character Classic (Senjimon)
Ike no Taiga · ca. 1751

Chinese poem on seeking a reclusive life in the mountains
Yelan Xinggui · mid-17th 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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 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 2026-08-26 16:08 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.