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. 16 shown for “Studio of Kano Sadanobu” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 05:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Amusements at Higashiyama in Kyoto
Studio of Kano Sadanobu · early 1620s

Shide (Jittoku)
Kano Sadanobu (1596-1623) · early 17th century

The Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals
Studio of Kano Takanobu · early 17th century

Herons and Old WIllow
Kano Sadanobu (1596-1623) · 1615-1868

Musk Cat
Uto Gyoshi · mid- to late 16th century

Sphaeranthus senegalensis DC.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Nov 1927

Chinese Boys at Play
Kano Motonobu 狩野元信 · first half 16th century
Eragrostis ciliaris (L.) R. Br.
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Sep 1946

Women’s Kabuki
Kano Takanobu · mid- to late 1610s

Moon and Autumn Grasses
Tawaraya Sōtatsu · mid- to late 17th century

Amusements at Kitano Shrine
Studio of Kano Takanobu · mid- to late 1610s

Appreciation of Painting, from a set of the Four Accomplishments
Kano School · ca. 1606

Birds and Flowers
Kano Tan'yū · 17th century

The Daoist Immortal Liezi
Kano School · ca. 1606

Seven Gods of Good Fortune and Chinese Children
Kano Chikanobu · 17th–18th century

Plantain and Bird in Snow
Kano Sōshū 狩野宗秀 · late 16th 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. 34 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. 2859566 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 05:13 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.