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. 7 shown for “Koma School” — 44 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Case (Inrō) with Design of Sheaves of Rice in Boats
Koma School · 19th century

Dryopteris erythrosora (D.C. Eaton) Kuntze
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Dec 1986

Incense Box with Scene from Noh Play Kokaji
Koma School · second half of the 19th century
Juncus effusus L.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 May 1976

Stacked Food Box (Jūbako) with Taro Plants and Chrysanthemums
Shibata Zeshin · mid-19th century

Inu koma Snyder
Artist not stated in the record · 1906

Tray with rice stalks and a grasshopper on a tea kettle
Shibata Zeshin · 1880s
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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 16652 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 18:57 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.