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. 24 shown for “Tawaraya Sōtatsu” — 53 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
“Trees Encoiled in Vines of Ivy” (Yadorigi)
Tawaraya Sōtatsu · early 17th century

Ivy vines, bridges and floating fans 蔦の細道扇面流図屏風
Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643) · early 17th century

White Hollyhocks
Tawaraya Sōtatsu · 17th century

Wild geese
Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643) · 1568-1615

Royal Visit to Ōhara, from The Tale of the Heike
Tawaraya Sōtatsu · first half of the 17th century

Wild geese
Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643) · 1568-1640

White Heron
Tawaraya Sōtatsu · early 17th century

Wild geese
Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643) · 1568-1615

Boats upon Waves
Tawaraya Sōtatsu · mid- to late 17th century

Six fan papers: miscellaneous subjects
Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643) · 1590-1640

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

Cranes and chrysanthemums
Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643) · 1568-1868

Puppy
Studio of Tawaraya Sōtatsu 俵屋宗達工房 · early 17th century

Cranes and chrysanthemums
Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643) · 1568-1868

“Mount Utsu” (Utsu no yama), from The Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari)
Tawaraya Sōtatsu · ca. 1634

Dragons and Clouds 雲龍図屏風 (右隻)
Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643) · 1590-1640
Poem by Onakatomi Yoshinobu with Underpainting of Hollyhocks
Shōkadō Shōjō · early 17th century

Dragons and Clouds 雲龍図屏風 (左隻)
Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643) · 1590-1640

Poem by Fujiwara no Okikaze with Underpainting of Clematis
Shōkadō Shōjō 松花堂昭乗 · early 17th century

Peonies and lilies 芍薬と百合図
Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643) · 1568-1615

Poem by Kamo no Chōmei with Underpainting of Cherry Blossoms
Hon'ami Kōetsu · 1606

Flowers of the seasons
Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643) · 1600-1630

Autumn Poem by Lady Kunaikyō
Hon'ami Kōetsu · mid-1620s

Waves at Matsushima 松島図屏風
Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643) · 17th 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. 30 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. 29 matched · 29 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 03:28 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.