OpenTwo 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 “Shunkōsai Hokushū 春好斎北洲” — 10 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 00:14 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Ebijūrō I as Tōken (China Dog) Jūbei, in the play Benimurasaki ai de someage (Red and Purple, Rich Dyes of Osaka)
Shunkōsai Hokushū 春好斎北洲 · 1822
Kabuki Actor Nakamura Utaemon III as the Sword Master Kyōgoku Takumi, from the series Issei ichidai atari Kyōgen (Hits of a Lifetime of Kyōgen)
Shunkōsai Hokushū 春好斎北洲 · 1825
The Kabuki Actor Nakamura Utaemon III (Shikan) as Ishikawa Goemon
Shunkōsai Hokushū 春好斎北洲 · 1822
The Actor Nakamura Utaemon III as Inanoya Hanbē
Shunkōsai Hokushū 春好斎北洲 · 1820
Kabuki Actors Asao Yūjirō as Sano Genzaemon and Ichikawa Ebijūrō I as Miura Arajirō, in the play Keisei Sano no Funabashi
Shunkōsai Hokushū 春好斎北洲 · 1822
Bandō Mitsugorō III as Daihanji Kiyozumi and Arashi Koroku IV as Koganosuke
Shunkōsai Hokushū 春好斎北洲 · 1821
The Actor Arashi Koroku IV in the Final Farewell Performance of His Career (Shōgai onagori kyōgen) as the Female Bandit Hotei Oichi
Shunkōsai Hokushū 春好斎北洲 · 1826
The Actor Asao Gakujūrō I (previously Yūjirō I) as Mashiba Hisatsugu
Shunkōsai Hokushū 春好斎北洲 · 1822
The Actor Arashi Kitsusaburō I (Kichisaburō II) as Prince Koretaka
Shunkōsai Hokushū · 1821
The Actor Onoe Fujaku III as Kobayakawa Takakage
Seiyōsai Shunshi 青陽斎春子 · mid-1820s
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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 00:14 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.