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. 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

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.
Gyoran Kannon, by Miyagawa Chōshun

Gyoran Kannon

Miyagawa Chōshun

Public domainThe Met
Yujo and her understudy (kamuro), by Miyagawa Choshun 宮川長春 (1683-1753)

Yujo and her understudy (kamuro)

Miyagawa Choshun 宮川長春 (1683-1753) · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman Binding Her Hair and Attendant under Flowering Cherry Tree, by Miyagawa Chōshun

Woman Binding Her Hair and Attendant under Flowering Cherry Tree

Miyagawa Chōshun · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Ariwara Narihira carrying his lover, by Miyagawa Choshun 宮川長春 (1683-1753)

Ariwara Narihira carrying his lover

Miyagawa Choshun 宮川長春 (1683-1753) · 1683-1752

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Handscroll of Ten Homoerotic (Nanshoku) Scenes, by Miyagawa Chōshun 宮川長春

Handscroll of Ten Homoerotic (Nanshoku) Scenes

Miyagawa Chōshun 宮川長春 · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Landscape: a yujo sitting on a bench, by Miyagawa Choshun 宮川長春 (1683-1753)

Landscape: a yujo sitting on a bench

Miyagawa Choshun 宮川長春 (1683-1753) · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman Reading under a Mosquito Net, by Fuhiken Tokikaze

Woman Reading under a Mosquito Net

Fuhiken Tokikaze · ca. 1720

Public domainThe Met
Scene in a brothel

Scene in a brothel

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bombus sp.

Bombus sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Apr 1992

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Polystichum ovatopaleaceum (Kodama) Sa. Kurata

Polystichum ovatopaleaceum (Kodama) Sa. Kurata

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Sep 1986

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pseudophegopteris bukoensis (Tagawa) Holttum

Pseudophegopteris bukoensis (Tagawa) Holttum

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Sep 1988

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Xylocopa (Xylocopoides) californica diamesa

Xylocopa (Xylocopoides) californica diamesa

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jul 1952

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Uncaria rhynchophylla (Miq.) Miq. ex Havil.

Uncaria rhynchophylla (Miq.) Miq. ex Havil.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jun 2011

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Idesia polycarpa Maxim.

Idesia polycarpa Maxim.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jun 2011

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Yujo and her understudy (kamuro), by Miyagawa Choki 宮川長亀

Yujo and her understudy (kamuro)

Miyagawa Choki 宮川長亀 · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman washing her hair with an attendant, by Katsukawa Shunsui 勝川春水 (fl. 1744-1764)

Woman washing her hair with an attendant

Katsukawa Shunsui 勝川春水 (fl. 1744-1764) · mid-18th century

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. 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.