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 “Shokusanjin (Ōta Nanpo)” — 16 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:04 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.

Bamboo Shoots
Shokusanjin (Ōta Nanpo) · 1820

Two Kyōka (Playful Thirty-One- Syllable Verse)
Shokusanjin (Ōta Nanpo) · 1819

Drawings and Poems by Various Artists
Shokusanjin (Ōta Nanpo) · ca. 1814

Miscellaneous Paintings and Calligraphy
Utamaro II · ca. 1801–6

Shellfish and Apparitions of the Yoshiwara Pleasure Quarter
Chōbunsai Eishi · ca. 1811

Fish Merchant Carrying Yellowtails on Horseback
Tani Bunchō · 1814

Courtesan as Daruma
Utagawa Toyoharu · ca. 1800; inscription ca. 1810

Female Entertainer with a Koto
Utagawa Toyoharu · ca. 1785; inscription early 19th century

The Six Poetic Immortals
Kubo Shunman · ca. 1810

Mother and her Children in Front of a Freestanding Screen of a Chinese Lion
Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿 · 1786

Hototogisu
Kubo Shunman · early 19th century

Snow, Moon, and Cherry Blossoms (Yoshiwara in Three Seasons)
Chōbunsai Eishi · early 19th 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. 16 matched · 16 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 11:04 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.