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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. 24 shown for “Isobe Isshu, Japanese” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:50 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.
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
Tsuba, by Isobe Isshu, Japanese

Tsuba

Isobe Isshu, Japanese · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Eighty-eight Prints from the series Ogura Imitations of One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Ogura nazorae hyakunin isshu), by Utagawa Hiroshige

Album of Eighty-eight Prints from the series Ogura Imitations of One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Ogura nazorae hyakunin isshu)

Utagawa Hiroshige · about 1845–48

Public domainThe Met
Dainagon Tsunenobu (Workers, beside the sea, dyeing cloth), from Hyakunin isshu ubaga etoki (A Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse), by Katsushika Hokusai, 1760 – 1849

Dainagon Tsunenobu (Workers, beside the sea, dyeing cloth), from Hyakunin isshu ubaga etoki (A Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse)

Katsushika Hokusai, 1760 – 1849 · ca. 1839

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Ninety-eight Prints from the series Ogura Imitations of One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Ogura nazorae hyakunin isshu), by Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Album of Ninety-eight Prints from the series Ogura Imitations of One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Ogura nazorae hyakunin isshu)

Utagawa Kuniyoshi · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki), Kujō Yoshitsune, by Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849)

One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki), Kujō Yoshitsune

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849) · ca. 1835-1836

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Six Poetic Immortals, by Kubo Shunman

The Six Poetic Immortals

Kubo Shunman · ca. 1810

Public domainThe Met
Stephania japonica (Thunb.) Miers

Stephania japonica (Thunb.) Miers

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poem by Jitō Tenno (Empress Jitō), from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki), by Katsushika Hokusai

Poem by Jitō Tenno (Empress Jitō), from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)

Katsushika Hokusai · ca. 1839

Public domainThe Met
Gardneria nutans (Zucc.) Siebold

Gardneria nutans (Zucc.) Siebold

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Aug 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poem by Ise, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki), by Katsushika Hokusai

Poem by Ise, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)

Katsushika Hokusai · 1839

Public domainThe Met
Sporobolus virginicus (L.) Kunth

Sporobolus virginicus (L.) Kunth

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 1956

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poem by Fujiwara no Michinobu Ason, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki), by Katsushika Hokusai

Poem by Fujiwara no Michinobu Ason, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)

Katsushika Hokusai · 1839

Public domainThe Met
Athyrium iseanum Rosenst.

Athyrium iseanum Rosenst.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eastern Brocade of One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Nishiki hyakunin isshu azuma-ori) 錦百人一首あつま織, by Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章

Eastern Brocade of One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Nishiki hyakunin isshu azuma-ori) 錦百人一首あつま織

Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章 · 1775

Public domainThe Met
Fissidens doii Sakurai

Fissidens doii Sakurai

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jan 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poem by Tenchi Tennō, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki), by Katsushika Hokusai

Poem by Tenchi Tennō, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)

Katsushika Hokusai · 1839

Public domainThe Met
Pemphis acidula J.R. Forst. & G. Forst.

Pemphis acidula J.R. Forst. & G. Forst.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 1956

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poem by Ariwara no Narihira, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki), by Katsushika Hokusai

Poem by Ariwara no Narihira, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)

Katsushika Hokusai · 1839

Public domainThe Met
Sesuvium portulacastrum (L.) L.

Sesuvium portulacastrum (L.) L.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 1956

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poem by Sarumaru Dayū, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki), by Katsushika Hokusai

Poem by Sarumaru Dayū, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)

Katsushika Hokusai · 1839

Public domainThe Met
Ficus microcarpa L. f.

Ficus microcarpa L. f.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 1956

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poem by Sanjō-in, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki), by Katsushika Hokusai

Poem by Sanjō-in, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)

Katsushika Hokusai

Public domainThe Met
Sophora tomentosa L.

Sophora tomentosa L.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 1956

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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. 49 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. 9917 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-08-26 20:50 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.