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. 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

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.
Spring Landscape, by Kawabata Gyokushō

Spring Landscape

Kawabata Gyokushō · 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Woodwardia kempii Copel.

Woodwardia kempii Copel.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Mar 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Traveling by Moonlight, by Kawabata Gyokushō

Traveling by Moonlight

Kawabata Gyokushō · ca. 1887–92

Public domainThe Met
Pteris grevilleana Wall. ex J. Agardh

Pteris grevilleana Wall. ex J. Agardh

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Aug 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bird at the Water's Edge, by Kawabata Gyokushō

Bird at the Water's Edge

Kawabata Gyokushō · 1887–92

Public domainThe Met
Huperzia somae (Hayata) Ching

Huperzia somae (Hayata) Ching

Artist not stated in the record · 3 May 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crane Among Reeds, by Kawabata Gyokushō

Crane Among Reeds

Kawabata Gyokushō · 1887–92

Public domainThe Met
Vandenboschia radicans var. orientalis (C. Chr.) H. Itô

Vandenboschia radicans var. orientalis (C. Chr.) H. Itô

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Aug 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blossoms by a River, by Kawabata Gyokushō

Blossoms by a River

Kawabata Gyokushō · ca. 1887–92

Public domainThe Met
Hymenophyllum barbatum (Bosch) Baker

Hymenophyllum barbatum (Bosch) Baker

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Ducks, by Kawabata Gyokushō

Pair of Ducks

Kawabata Gyokushō · 1887–92

Public domainThe Met
Pteris tokioi Masam.

Pteris tokioi Masam.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cock and Hen, by Kawabata Gyokushō

Cock and Hen

Kawabata Gyokushō · 1887–92

Public domainThe Met
Hymenasplenium obliquissimum (Hayata) Sugim.

Hymenasplenium obliquissimum (Hayata) Sugim.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Aug 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Pair of Puppies, by Kawabata Gyokushō

A Pair of Puppies

Kawabata Gyokushō · ca. 1887–92

Public domainThe Met
Haplopteris zosterifolia (Willd.) E.H. Crane

Haplopteris zosterifolia (Willd.) E.H. Crane

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Squirrel Eating Chestnuts, by Kawabata Gyokushō

Squirrel Eating Chestnuts

Kawabata Gyokushō · 1887–92

Public domainThe Met
Lindsaea chienii Ching

Lindsaea chienii Ching

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape, by Kawabata Gyokushō

Landscape

Kawabata Gyokushō · ca. 1887–92

Public domainThe Met
Pteris setulosocostulata Hayata

Pteris setulosocostulata Hayata

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Dec 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
River Scene with Rocky Hills in Background, by Kawabata Gyokushō

River Scene with Rocky Hills in Background

Kawabata Gyokushō · ca. 1887–92

Public domainThe Met
Hymenophyllum polyanthos (Sw.) Sw.

Hymenophyllum polyanthos (Sw.) Sw.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Aug 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cat Seen from Behind, by Kawabata Gyokushō

Cat Seen from Behind

Kawabata Gyokushō · ca. 1887–92

Public domainThe Met
Hymenophyllum riukiuense Ching

Hymenophyllum riukiuense Ching

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Aug 1959

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. 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.