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 “Tani Bunchō” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 13:28 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.

Palace Landscape
Tani Bunchō · early 19th century

Brewing Tea in a Snow-Covered Hut
Tani Bunchō · 1791

Landscape with Waterfall
Tani Bunchō · 1828

The Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup
Tani Bunchō · 1828

Collection of Japanese Paintings
Tani Bunchō · 1809

Peacocks and Peonies
Tani Bunchō · 1820

Shazanrō (Bunchō) Picture Book (Shazanrō ehon 寫山樓畫本)
Tani Bunchō 谷文晁 · 1811, (Bunka 8); 1817

Quiet Residence in an Autumn Valley
Tani Bunchō · 1821

Portrait of Zhu Xi
Tani Bunchō · 1796

Mountains in Rain
Tani Bunchō · 1831

Fish Merchant Carrying Yellowtails on Horseback
Tani Bunchō · 1814

Album of the New Year (Aratama jō) 新玉帖
Tani Bunchō 谷文晁 · early 19th century, before 1829
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. 28 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. 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 13:28 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.