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. 18 shown for “Kano Yukinobu 狩野之信” — 18 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 11:41 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.
Hawk on a Pine, by Kano Yukinobu 狩野之信

Hawk on a Pine

Kano Yukinobu 狩野之信 · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Hibiscus (part of a set, F1904.379-381), by Kano Tsunenobu 狩野常信 (1636-1713)

Hibiscus (part of a set, F1904.379-381)

Kano Tsunenobu 狩野常信 (1636-1713) · mid 17th-early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Titmouse with Pomegranate Flowers, by Kano Yukinobu 狩野之信

Titmouse with Pomegranate Flowers

Kano Yukinobu 狩野之信 · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
White peacock and peonies, by Kano Tsunenobu 狩野常信 (1636-1713)

White peacock and peonies

Kano Tsunenobu 狩野常信 (1636-1713) · mid 17th-early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Daoist Immortal Liezi Flying on a Cloud, by Kano Yukinobu 狩野之信

The Daoist Immortal Liezi Flying on a Cloud

Kano Yukinobu 狩野之信 · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Heron and lotus, by Kano Tsunenobu 狩野常信 (1636-1713)

Heron and lotus

Kano Tsunenobu 狩野常信 (1636-1713) · mid 17th-early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moon over an Autumn Moor, by Kano Yukinobu 狩野之信

Moon over an Autumn Moor

Kano Yukinobu 狩野之信 · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Birds and flowers, by Kano Tsunenobu 狩野常信 (1636-1713)

Birds and flowers

Kano Tsunenobu 狩野常信 (1636-1713) · mid 17th-early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Birds and Flowers, by Kano Yukinobu 狩野之信

Birds and Flowers

Kano Yukinobu 狩野之信 · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Aibika (part of a set, F1904.379-381), by Kano Tsunenobu 狩野常信 (1636-1713)

Aibika (part of a set, F1904.379-381)

Kano Tsunenobu 狩野常信 (1636-1713) · mid 17th-early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Birds and Flowers, by Kano Tan'yū

Birds and Flowers

Kano Tan'yū · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Benten (Sarasvati) seated on a rock, by Kano Tsunenobu 狩野常信 (1636-1713)

Benten (Sarasvati) seated on a rock

Kano Tsunenobu 狩野常信 (1636-1713) · mid 17th-early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Waxwings, Cherry Blossoms, and Bamboo, by Kiyohara Yukinobu

Waxwings, Cherry Blossoms, and Bamboo

Kiyohara Yukinobu · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Morning glory and bamboo (part of a set, F1904.379-381), by Kano Tsunenobu 狩野常信 (1636-1713)

Morning glory and bamboo (part of a set, F1904.379-381)

Kano Tsunenobu 狩野常信 (1636-1713) · mid 17th-early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quail and Millet, by Kiyohara Yukinobu

Quail and Millet

Kiyohara Yukinobu · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Cock and bamboo, by Kano Tsunenobu 狩野常信 (1636-1713)

Cock and bamboo

Kano Tsunenobu 狩野常信 (1636-1713) · mid 17th-early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mandarin ducks in a landscape, by Kano Tsunenobu 狩野常信 (1636-1713)

Mandarin ducks in a landscape

Kano Tsunenobu 狩野常信 (1636-1713) · mid 17th-early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Geese, moon and water-plants, by Kano Tsunenobu 狩野常信 (1636-1713)

Geese, moon and water-plants

Kano Tsunenobu 狩野常信 (1636-1713) · mid 17th-early 18th century

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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 11:41 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.