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 “Jacket with Dragon and Mount Fuji” — 40 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 00:31 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Yoshiwara. Hidari Fuji (Yoshiwara with Mount Fuji), from Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-na Uchi (Fifty-Three Stations on the Tokaido), by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Yoshiwara. Hidari Fuji (Yoshiwara with Mount Fuji), from Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-na Uchi (Fifty-Three Stations on the Tokaido)

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1834

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hanging

Hanging

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Great Wave at Satta Beach, Suruga, from the series The Thirty-Six Views of Fuji (Fuji Sanjuroku Kei), by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Great Wave at Satta Beach, Suruga, from the series The Thirty-Six Views of Fuji (Fuji Sanjuroku Kei)

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Yui, Summit of Mount Satta, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi), by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Yui, Summit of Mount Satta, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · ca. 1834

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
New Fuji, Meguro (meguro, Shin-Fuji) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

New Fuji, Meguro (meguro, Shin-Fuji) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vietnam tour jacket with black power embroidery, by Saha Union Group, Thai, founded 1961

Vietnam tour jacket with black power embroidery

Saha Union Group, Thai, founded 1961 · 1971-1972

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Indicator, Exhaust Gas Temperature, Japanese Navy, Model-2, by Fuji Aircraft Instrument Co. Ltd. (Fuji Koku Keiki)

Indicator, Exhaust Gas Temperature, Japanese Navy, Model-2

Fuji Aircraft Instrument Co. Ltd. (Fuji Koku Keiki)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Indicator, Exhaust Gas Temperature, Japanese Navy, Model-2, by Fuji Aircraft Instrument Co. Ltd. (Fuji Koku Keiki)

Indicator, Exhaust Gas Temperature, Japanese Navy, Model-2

Fuji Aircraft Instrument Co. Ltd. (Fuji Koku Keiki)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape with Mount Fuji and Matsubara Pine Forest, by Kano Tan'yu 狩野探幽 (1602-1674)

Landscape with Mount Fuji and Matsubara Pine Forest

Kano Tan'yu 狩野探幽 (1602-1674) · 1669

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kite Scene, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Kite Scene

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Goyu: Motono-ga-hara and Motozaka Pass (Goyu, Motono-ga-hara Motozaka goe) from the Series 53 Stations of the Tokaido, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Goyu: Motono-ga-hara and Motozaka Pass (Goyu, Motono-ga-hara Motozaka goe) from the Series 53 Stations of the Tokaido

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
River landscape: ferry-boat and Mount Fuji, by Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849)

River landscape: ferry-boat and Mount Fuji

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849) · 1842

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1624498 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 00:31 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.