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 “Kano Chikanobu” — 47 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 07:45 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Birds and Flowers of Autumn and Winter
Kano Chikanobu · early 18th century

Sphaeranthus senegalensis DC.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Nov 1927

Eagle
Kano Chikanobu · 17th–18th century
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Dec 1927

Beauty
Kano Chikanobu · 17th–18th century

Dalbergia sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Nov 1959

Crane, Tortoise, Pine, and Bamboo under a Rising Sun
Kano Chikanobu · 17th–18th century

Wahlenbergia sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Nov 1959

Seven Gods of Good Fortune and Chinese Children
Kano Chikanobu · 17th–18th century

Mother and her Children in Front of a Freestanding Screen of a Chinese Lion
Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿 · 1786

Herdboys and Buffalos
Kaō · probably 15th 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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 860 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 07:45 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.