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. 10 shown for “Shōkadō Shōjō” — 10 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 05:50 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
Shōkadō Shōjō · early 17th century
Poem by Onakatomi Yoshinobu with Underpainting of Hollyhocks
Shōkadō Shōjō · early 17th century

Poem by Fujiwara no Okikaze with Underpainting of Clematis
Shōkadō Shōjō 松花堂昭乗 · early 17th century

Eight Views of Xiao and Xiang Rivers
Maruyama Ōkyo 円山応挙 · late 18th century

Sparrow on Plum Branch (Ume ni Suzume)
Shōkadō Shōjō

Freehand copy of a transcription of “The Song of Everlasting Sorrow” by Bai Juyi
Shōkadō Shōjō · possibly 18th-century copy of a 1614 work

Daoist Master Fei Zhangfang
Sesson Shūkei · ca. 1555–61

Dreaming Cat
Hōzōbō Shinkai · mid-17th century

Waka Poem on Chrysanthemums
Shōren’in Sonchō Hosshinnō 青蓮院尊朝法親王 · late 16th century

Scenes and Calligraphic Excerpts from The Tale of Genji
Tosa School · early 17th 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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 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 05:50 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.