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 “Robe (Kosode) with Cherry Blossoms and Butterflies” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Robe (Kosode) with Cherry Blossoms and Butterflies
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Kimono
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

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

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Piece from a Robe (Kosode) with Cherry Blossoms and Monkeys with Palanquin
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Black Bird with Blossoms, Butterfly, and Red Ribbon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830

Incense Burner (kōro) with Design of Grasses, Cherry Blossoms and Butterflies
Hon'ami Kōetsu · 17th century

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

Robe (kosode) with landscape and seasonal flowers
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Pink, Red, Blue, and Black Bird on Branch with Blossoms and Butterflies
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830

Inrō with Butterflies and Pampas Grass
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Small Black-and-White Bird on Rose Leaf with Blossoms and Butterflies
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830

Case (Inrō) in the Shape of Tiered Picnic Box of Cherry Bark with Cherry Blossoms and Butterfly
Kiyokawa · 18th century

Pair of Brown Birds with Blossoms, Berries, and a Butterfly
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830

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

Cherries and Butterflies
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830
Piece from a Kosode with Cherry Blossoms
Artist not stated in the record

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Court Lady’s Garment (Kosode) with Swallows and Bells on Blossoming Cherry Tree
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Woman's robe
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860
Piece from a Kosode with Fans and Cherry Blossoms
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–first half of the 18th century

Cherry Blossom Viewing
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

Piece from a Kosode with Cherry Blossoms and Poem Slips
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Noh robe
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800
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. 46 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. 1525130 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 18:28 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.