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 “Tanomura Chokunyū” — 13 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:12 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.

Chokunyū juen zuroku
Tanomura Chokunyū · 1881

Spring Sunrise at Mount Penglai
Tanomura Chokunyū · 1881

Pines and Cranes of Longevity
Tanomura Chokunyū · 1903

Landscape in Green and Blue
Tanomura Chokunyū · 1852

Temple in the Valley of Pines with a Couplet
Tanomura Chokunyū · 1850 (painting); 1904 (calligraphy)

White Clouds and Crimson Trees
Tanomura Chokunyū 田能村直入 · 1888

Letter
Tanomura Chokunyū 田能村直入 · mid- to late 19th century

Album of Marvelous Landscapes (Kikanchō)
Tanomura Chokunyū · 19th century

Set of Five Sencha Teacups with Auspicious Plants
Seifu Yohei III · 1903

Collaborative Painting of Sixteen Arhats
Suzuki Hyakunen 鈴木百年 · late 1870s–early 1880s

Monkey Offering a Qin to Scholar
Tanomura Chikuden · 1833

Pair of Cranes in Bamboo Grove
Tanomura Chikuden 田能村竹田 · ca. early 1830s
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. 13 matched · 13 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 2026-08-28 22:12 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.