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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. 24 shown for “Piece from a Kosode with Cherry Blossoms and Poem Slips” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:17 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.
Piece from a Kosode with Cherry Blossoms and Poem Slips

Piece from a Kosode with Cherry Blossoms and Poem Slips

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Robe (Kosode) with Cherry Blossoms and Cypress Fence

Robe (Kosode) with Cherry Blossoms and Cypress Fence

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 17th century

Public domainThe Met
April, from series of "Social Customs...", by Suzuki Harunobu, Japanese, 1724 – 1770

April, from series of "Social Customs..."

Suzuki Harunobu, Japanese, 1724 – 1770 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer (Suichū) with Cherry Blossoms and Picnic Curtain

Ewer (Suichū) with Cherry Blossoms and Picnic Curtain

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Teapot, by Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967

Teapot

Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Cherry Blossoms and Textile Curtains

Dish with Cherry Blossoms and Textile Curtains

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1670–90

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967

Vase

Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pierced Jug with Harpies and Sphinxes

Pierced Jug with Harpies and Sphinxes

Artist not stated in the record · dated 612 AH/1215–16 CE

Public domainThe Met
Cherry Blossoms

Cherry Blossoms

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poem by Kamo no Chōmei with Underpainting of Cherry Blossoms, by Hon'ami Kōetsu

Poem by Kamo no Chōmei with Underpainting of Cherry Blossoms

Hon'ami Kōetsu · 1606

Public domainThe Met
Cherry Blossom Viewing, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Cherry Blossom Viewing

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece from a Kosode with Cherry Blossoms

Piece from a Kosode with Cherry Blossoms

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Viewing of Cherry Blossoms, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Viewing of Cherry Blossoms

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece from a Kosode with Fans and Cherry Blossoms

Piece from a Kosode with Fans and Cherry Blossoms

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–first half of the 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Cherry Blossom Viewing, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Cherry Blossom Viewing

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poem by Ki no Tsurayuki (ca. 872–945) on Decorated Paper with Cherry Blossoms, by Ogata Sōken

Poem by Ki no Tsurayuki (ca. 872–945) on Decorated Paper with Cherry Blossoms

Ogata Sōken · mid- to late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Ichigaya Hachiman from the Series 100 Views of Edo, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Ichigaya Hachiman from the Series 100 Views of Edo

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece from a Summer Kosode (katabira) with Cherry Blossoms

Piece from a Summer Kosode (katabira) with Cherry Blossoms

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Three Brooches, by Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794

Designs for Three Brooches

Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece from a Kosode with Pine Boughs and Cherry Blossoms

Piece from a Kosode with Pine Boughs and Cherry Blossoms

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Necklace and Three Chains

Designs for a Necklace and Three Chains

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Large Bowl with Cherry Blossoms and Maple Leaves, by Takahashi Dōhachi III

Large Bowl with Cherry Blossoms and Maple Leaves

Takahashi Dōhachi III · first half of the 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Fukagawa Hachiman yanabiraki from the Series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Fukagawa Hachiman yanabiraki from the Series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

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. 88 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2937120 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-08-28 22:17 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.