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 “Robe (Kosode) with Bamboo and Plum” — 24 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 19:18 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.

Robe (Kosode) with Bamboo and Plum
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Robe (Kosode) with Cherry Blossoms and Cypress Fence
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 17th century

Robe (Kosode) with Shells and Sea Grasses
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Old Plum
Kano Sansetsu · 1646

Dish with flowers and birds
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Peony and Bamboo
Ike (Tokuyama) Gyokuran · ca. 1768

Over Robe (Uchikake) with Mount Hōrai
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century–first half 19th century

Service vessel with bamboo, plum blossoms, butterflies, and birds
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Freshwater Jar (Mizusashi) with Pine (front) and Plum with Bamboo (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630–40s

Robe
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Beauty of the Kanbun Era
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove
Sesson Shūkei · 1550s
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. 241 matched · 24 examined · 3 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 2026-08-28 19:18 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.