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. 16 shown for “Miyagawa Chōshun” — 18 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 04:47 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Gyoran Kannon
Miyagawa Chōshun

Yujo and her understudy (kamuro)
Miyagawa Choshun 宮川長春 (1683-1753) · 18th century

Woman Binding Her Hair and Attendant under Flowering Cherry Tree
Miyagawa Chōshun · 18th century

Ariwara Narihira carrying his lover
Miyagawa Choshun 宮川長春 (1683-1753) · 1683-1752

Handscroll of Ten Homoerotic (Nanshoku) Scenes
Miyagawa Chōshun 宮川長春 · early 18th century

Landscape: a yujo sitting on a bench
Miyagawa Choshun 宮川長春 (1683-1753) · 18th century

Woman Reading under a Mosquito Net
Fuhiken Tokikaze · ca. 1720

Scene in a brothel
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

Bombus sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Apr 1992

Polystichum ovatopaleaceum (Kodama) Sa. Kurata
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Sep 1986

Pseudophegopteris bukoensis (Tagawa) Holttum
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Sep 1988
Xylocopa (Xylocopoides) californica diamesa
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jul 1952

Uncaria rhynchophylla (Miq.) Miq. ex Havil.
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jun 2011

Idesia polycarpa Maxim.
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jun 2011

Yujo and her understudy (kamuro)
Miyagawa Choki 宮川長亀 · 1615-1868

Woman washing her hair with an attendant
Katsukawa Shunsui 勝川春水 (fl. 1744-1764) · mid-18th 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. 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. 14 matched · 14 examined · 2 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 2026-09-03 04:47 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.