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 “Katsukawa Shunsui 勝川春水 (fl. 1744-1764)” — 14 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 05:17 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Woman standing on a second-story balcony
Katsukawa Shunsui 勝川春水 (fl. 1744-1764) · mid-18th century

Woman washing her hair with an attendant
Katsukawa Shunsui 勝川春水 (fl. 1744-1764) · mid-18th century

A girl playing battledore and shuttlecock
Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川春章 (1726-1792) · 18th century

Woman, a baby and a young girl
Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川春章 (1726-1792) · 1726-1868

A girl and a man walking in the snow
Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川春章 (1726-1792) · mid 18th century

A courtesan looking into a hand mirror
Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川春章 (1726-1792) · 18th century

Two peasant girls beating cloth outside a house
Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川春章 (1726-1792) · 18th century

Women Airing Books and Clothes
Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川春章 (1726-1792) · Late 18th century

Two women under a willow tree
Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川春章 (1726-1792) · 1726-1792

Interior: a girl and a kitten
Katsukawa Shuncho 勝川春潮 (active ca. 1780-1795) · late 18th century

Interior: a woman helping a girl to dress
Katsukawa Shuncho 勝川春潮 (active ca. 1780-1795) · 1726-1792

Woman near a fenced-off flowering garden
Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川春章 (1726-1792) · late 18th 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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 14 matched · 14 examined · 0 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 2026-08-27 05:17 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.