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 “Rai San’yō 頼山陽” — 18 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 05:30 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.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.

Letter
Rai San’yō 頼山陽 · ca. 1820–28

A Chinese Verse on “Compiling History”
Rai San’yō 頼山陽 · ca. late 1820s

Cherry Blossoms at Yoshino
Rai San’yō 頼山陽 · 19th century

Unexpected Meeting on the Yodo River
Rai San’yō 頼山陽 · 1823

Poem Accompanying an Over Robe (Uchikake) with a Bamboo Painting by Gion Nankai
Rai San’yō · 1824

Autumn Landscape
Rai San’yō · 1823

Tree Peonies and Chinese Poem on Peonies
Matsumura Keibun · ca. 1830s

Poem in Chinese on the Theme of Plum Blossoms Reflected in Water
Matsumura Keibun · ca. 1823

Bunpō Landscape Picture Album (Bunpō sansui gafu)
Kawamura Bunpō · 1824

Flowers and Fruits
Uragami Shunkin · early 19th century

View of the Kamo River from Sanbogi at Dawn
Oda Kaisen · 1829

Mountain Stream on a Summer Day
Nakabayashi Chikutō · first half of the19th 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. 18 matched · 18 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 2026-08-27 05:30 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.