OpenTwo 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. 21 shown for “Musō Soseki” — 32 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:06 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
”Abiding nowhere, the awakened mind arises”
Musō Soseki · early to mid-14th century
Odontosoria colombiana Maxon
Artist not stated in the record
Poem on the Theme of Snow
Musō Soseki · 14th century
Danthoniopsis pruinosa C. E. Hubb.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Mar 1963
Letter to Suwa Daishin, Officer of the Shogun
Musō Soseki · ca. 1339–51
Solanum colombianum Dunal
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Nov 1948
Gathering of the Jewels (Tama hiroi)
Nukina Kaioku 貫名海屋 · postscript dated 1861
Arabis auriculata Lam.
Artist not stated in the record · May 1880 to Jun 1880
Transcription of a Letter from Zekkai Chūshin to Shippei Shikai
Unidentified scribe · after 1380
Urocissa erythrorhyncha magnirostris
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Dec 1932
Sacred Verse (Gāthā) from the Sutra of Buddhist Teachings (Hokku-gyō)
Zekkai Chūshin · ca. 1380s–1405
Cyperus exaltatus Retz.
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Aug 1967
“The Mountain is Empty; A Pinecone Falls”
Zekkai Chūshin 絶海中津 · late 14th century
Angiopteris sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Aug 1967
Orchids, Bamboo, Briars, and Rocks
Tesshū Tokusai · mid-14th century
Trichopteryx elegantula (Hook. f.) Stapf
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 10/3/63
Buddhist Maxim on the Saving Power of Amida
Gukyoku Reisai · first half 15th century
Selaginella ostenfeldii Hieron.
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jan 1933
Selaginella repanda (Desv. ex Poir.) Spring
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Dec 1932
Cheilanthes tenuifolia (Burm. f.) Sw.
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jan 1933
Centotheca lappacea (L.) Desv.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Dec 1932
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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 23 matched · 23 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 2026-08-27 21:06 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.