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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. 12 shown for “Nishikawa Sukenobu 西川祐信” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 23:28 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.

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.

Illustrated Poems (Ehon Kaikasen) 絵本貝歌仙, by Nishikawa Sukenobu 西川祐信

Illustrated Poems (Ehon Kaikasen) 絵本貝歌仙

Nishikawa Sukenobu 西川祐信 · 1747

Public domainThe Met
Picture Book: Flowers Yet to be Picked (Ehon Suetsumuhana) 絵本末摘花, by Nishikawa Sukenobu 西川祐信

Picture Book: Flowers Yet to be Picked (Ehon Suetsumuhana) 絵本末摘花

Nishikawa Sukenobu 西川祐信 · 1756

Public domainThe Met
Picture Book: Mount Asaka (Ehon Asakayama) 絵本浅香山, by Nishikawa Sukenobu 西川祐信

Picture Book: Mount Asaka (Ehon Asakayama) 絵本浅香山

Nishikawa Sukenobu 西川祐信 · January 1739

Public domainThe Met
Picture Book of Life in the Capital (Ehon miyako zōshi) 絵本都草紙, by Nishikawa Sukenobu 西川祐信

Picture Book of Life in the Capital (Ehon miyako zōshi) 絵本都草紙

Nishikawa Sukenobu 西川祐信 · 1746

Public domainThe Met
Picture Book of Komatsubara (Ehon komatsubara) 絵本小松原, by Nishikawa Sukenobu 西川祐信

Picture Book of Komatsubara (Ehon komatsubara) 絵本小松原

Nishikawa Sukenobu 西川祐信 · 1761

Public domainThe Met
Picture Book of Mount Asaka (Ehon asakayama) 絵本浅香山, by Nishikawa Sukenobu 西川祐信

Picture Book of Mount Asaka (Ehon asakayama) 絵本浅香山

Nishikawa Sukenobu 西川祐信 · 1739

Public domainThe Met
Picture Book: Ogura Hill (Ehon Ogurayama) 絵本小倉山, by Nishikawa Sukenobu 西川祐信

Picture Book: Ogura Hill (Ehon Ogurayama) 絵本小倉山

Nishikawa Sukenobu 西川祐信 · 1749

Public domainThe Met
Illustrated Proverbs, The Illustrated Lives of Women (Ehon Mitsuwagusa) 絵本三津輪草, by Nishikawa Sukenobu 西川祐信

Illustrated Proverbs, The Illustrated Lives of Women (Ehon Mitsuwagusa) 絵本三津輪草

Nishikawa Sukenobu 西川祐信 · 1741

Public domainThe Met
True Reflections on the Life and Manners of a Woman (Ehon Masukagami) 絵本十寸鏡, by Nishikawa Sukenobu 西川祐信

True Reflections on the Life and Manners of a Woman (Ehon Masukagami) 絵本十寸鏡

Nishikawa Sukenobu 西川祐信 · 1748, 1st month

Public domainThe Met
Picture Book of Snow, Moon, and Flowers (Ehon setsugekka) 絵本雪月花; 絵本倭文庫(えほんやまとぶんこ), by Nishikawa Sukenobu 西川祐信

Picture Book of Snow, Moon, and Flowers (Ehon setsugekka) 絵本雪月花; 絵本倭文庫(えほんやまとぶんこ)

Nishikawa Sukenobu 西川祐信 · 1768

Public domainThe Met
Picture Book of Ogura Hill (Ehon ogurayama) 絵本小倉山, by Nishikawa Sukenobu 西川祐信

Picture Book of Ogura Hill (Ehon ogurayama) 絵本小倉山

Nishikawa Sukenobu 西川祐信 · 1749

Public domainThe Met
Picture Book of the Evergreens (Ehon tokiwagusa) 繪本常盤草, by Nishikawa Sukenobu 西川祐信

Picture Book of the Evergreens (Ehon tokiwagusa) 繪本常盤草

Nishikawa Sukenobu 西川祐信 · 1731

Public domainThe Met
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. 38 matched · 24 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 2026-09-02 23:28 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.