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 “Katsushika Hokusai, 1760 – 1849” — 24 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 10:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), or The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)
Katsushika Hokusai · ca. 1830–32

Woman in a Black Kimono
Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章 · 1783–89

Six Jewel Rivers from Various Provinces
Utagawa Hiroshige · 1857

Winter Farming Scene; (verso) Autumn Farming Scene
Katsushika Isai

The Legendary Empress Jingū
Kōsai Hokushin 蛟斎北岑 · mid-19th century

Five Beauties
Teisai Hokuba · 1840

Female Entertainer with Shamisen
Teisai Hokuba · early 19th century
Random Sketches by Hokusai, Volume 12
Katsushika Hokusai · 1834

Random Sketches by Hokusai, Volumes 1 to 11
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Album of Sketches by Katsushika Hokusai and His Disciples
Katsushika Hokusai · 19th century

Album of Sketches by Katsushika Hokusai and His Disciples
Katsushika Hokusai · 19th 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. 447 matched · 24 examined · 13 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 10:13 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.