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 “Kobayashi Kiyochika” — 19 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 12:27 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.

Use of Electricity during the Siege of Pyongyang
Kobayashi Kiyochika · 1894

Print from the series Long Live Japan: One Hundred Victories, One Hundred Laughs
Kobayashi Kiyochika · 1904–5

Print from the series Long Live Japan: One Hundred Victories, One Hundred Laughs
Kobayashi Kiyochika · 1904–5

Cherry Tree
Kobayashi Kiyochika · dated 1874

Street Scene in the Outskirts of Edo on an Evening in Winter
Kobayashi Kiyochika · ca. 1878

Fuji with Boat at Miho in Sunshu (Shizuoka)
Kobayashi Kiyochika · October 1878

Portrait of Fukuchi Gen'ichiro (1843–?)
Kobayashi Kiyochika · October 1885
![Illustration of the Empress Visiting a Field Hospital [in Hiroshima] (Yasen byōin gyōkō no zu), by Kobayashi Kiyochika](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fas%2Fweb-large%2FDP147684.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Illustration of the Empress Visiting a Field Hospital [in Hiroshima] (Yasen byōin gyōkō no zu)
Kobayashi Kiyochika · 1895
![Illustration of the Empress Visiting the General Staff Headquarters [to present a tray of bandages] (Sanbō honbu gyōkei no zu), by Kobayashi Kiyochika](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fas%2Fweb-large%2FDP147674.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Illustration of the Empress Visiting the General Staff Headquarters [to present a tray of bandages] (Sanbō honbu gyōkei no zu)
Kobayashi Kiyochika · 1895

Triumphant Arrival of the Emperor at Shinbashi Station
Kobayashi Kiyochika · 1895

Illustration of the Great Korean War (Chōsen dai sensō no zu)
Kobayashi Kiyochika · August, 1882

Sailor Tanaka Ichitarō, from the series Mirror of Army and Navy Heroes
Kobayashi Kiyochika · 1895 (Meiji 28, 7th month)
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. 19 matched · 19 examined · 0 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 12:27 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.