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. 24 shown for “Kawabata Gyokushō” — 56 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:09 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Spring Landscape
Kawabata Gyokushō · 20th century

Woodwardia kempii Copel.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Mar 1959

Traveling by Moonlight
Kawabata Gyokushō · ca. 1887–92

Pteris grevilleana Wall. ex J. Agardh
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Aug 1960

Bird at the Water's Edge
Kawabata Gyokushō · 1887–92

Huperzia somae (Hayata) Ching
Artist not stated in the record · 3 May 1960

Crane Among Reeds
Kawabata Gyokushō · 1887–92

Vandenboschia radicans var. orientalis (C. Chr.) H. Itô
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Aug 1961

Blossoms by a River
Kawabata Gyokushō · ca. 1887–92

Hymenophyllum barbatum (Bosch) Baker
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1961

Pair of Ducks
Kawabata Gyokushō · 1887–92

Pteris tokioi Masam.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 1959

Cock and Hen
Kawabata Gyokushō · 1887–92

Hymenasplenium obliquissimum (Hayata) Sugim.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Aug 1961

A Pair of Puppies
Kawabata Gyokushō · ca. 1887–92

Haplopteris zosterifolia (Willd.) E.H. Crane
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 1959

Squirrel Eating Chestnuts
Kawabata Gyokushō · 1887–92

Lindsaea chienii Ching
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 1959

Landscape
Kawabata Gyokushō · ca. 1887–92

Pteris setulosocostulata Hayata
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Dec 1959

River Scene with Rocky Hills in Background
Kawabata Gyokushō · ca. 1887–92

Hymenophyllum polyanthos (Sw.) Sw.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Aug 1949

Cat Seen from Behind
Kawabata Gyokushō · ca. 1887–92

Hymenophyllum riukiuense Ching
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Aug 1959
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. 16 matched · 16 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 44 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-01 07:09 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.