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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 “Scenes from the Tale of Genji” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 15:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Twelve Scenes from The Tale of Genji
Unidentified artist · mid-17th century
Bush Clover and Birds
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century
Scenes from The Tale of Genji
Tosa School · early 17th century
Bush Clover on Lattice
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century
Scenes from the Tale of Genji
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Parody of a scene from The Tale of Genji
Kawamata Tsuneyuki 川又常行 (1676?-1741?) · early 18th century
Fifty-Four Scenes from The Tale of Genji
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century
Scenes from The Tale of Genji
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century
Albums of scenes from The Tale of Genji
Tosa Mitsunori · early 17th century
Album of paintings and calligraphy depicting scenes from The Tale of Genji
Tosa Mitsunori (1583-1638) · early 17th century
Summer Robe (Katabira) with Seasonal Landscapes and Scenes from The Tale of Genji
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the18th century
The Tale of Genji, Chapter 34; Kashiwagi catches sight of the Third Princess
Tosa Mitsuoki (1617-1691) · 17th century
Bowl with The Virgin and the Unicorn and arms of Matthias Corvinus and Beatrice of Aragon
Artist not stated in the record · probably ca. 1486–88
The Tale of Genji, chapter 2: Prince Genji's visit to Utsusemi
Tosa Mitsuoki (1617-1691) · 17th century
A Disguised Scene from The Tale of Genji (Fūryū Yatsushi Genji), Chapter 33, “Wisteria Leaves (Fuji no uraba)”
Chōbunsai Eishi · ca. 1794
Murasaki Shikibu composing the Tale of Genji at Ishiyamadera
Gakutei Harunobu (active ca. 1813-ca. 1868) · 19th century
Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30
A makimono box decorated with scenes from the Genji romance
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century
Theodosius Arrives at Ephesus, from a Scene from the Legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1210
Courtesan beneath a Mosquito Net
Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (1786-1865) · 1855
Roundel with Scenes of the Attack on the Castle of Love
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40
Seven women walking near a football court
Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川春章 (1726-1792) · 1726-1792
Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine
Théodore Chassériau · 1851
Court Ladies among cherry trees (left); Cherry blossoms, a high fence and retainers (right)
Style of Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643) · 1590-1640
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. 10086 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. 3071172 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-06 15:13 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.