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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

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
“Trees Encoiled in Vines of Ivy” (Yadorigi), by Tawaraya Sōtatsu

“Trees Encoiled in Vines of Ivy” (Yadorigi)

Tawaraya Sōtatsu · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Ivy vines, bridges and floating fans 蔦の細道扇面流図屏風, by Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643)

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
White Hollyhocks, by Tawaraya Sōtatsu

White Hollyhocks

Tawaraya Sōtatsu · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Wild geese, by Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643)

Wild geese

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Royal Visit to Ōhara, from The Tale of the Heike, by Tawaraya Sōtatsu

Royal Visit to Ōhara, from The Tale of the Heike

Tawaraya Sōtatsu · first half of the 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Wild geese, by Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643)

Wild geese

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
White Heron, by Tawaraya Sōtatsu

White Heron

Tawaraya Sōtatsu · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Wild geese, by Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643)

Wild geese

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boats upon Waves, by Tawaraya Sōtatsu

Boats upon Waves

Tawaraya Sōtatsu · mid- to late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Six fan papers: miscellaneous subjects, by Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643)

Six fan papers: miscellaneous subjects

Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643) · 1590-1640

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moon and Autumn Grasses, by Tawaraya Sōtatsu

Moon and Autumn Grasses

Tawaraya Sōtatsu · mid- to late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Cranes and chrysanthemums, by Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643)

Cranes and chrysanthemums

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Puppy, by Studio of Tawaraya Sōtatsu 俵屋宗達工房

Puppy

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

Public domainThe Met
Cranes and chrysanthemums, by Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643)

Cranes and chrysanthemums

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
“Mount Utsu” (Utsu no yama), from The Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari), by Tawaraya Sōtatsu

“Mount Utsu” (Utsu no yama), from The Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari)

Tawaraya Sōtatsu · ca. 1634

Public domainThe Met
Dragons and Clouds 雲龍図屏風 (右隻), by Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643)

Dragons and Clouds 雲龍図屏風 (右隻)

Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643) · 1590-1640

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poem by Onakatomi Yoshinobu with Underpainting of Hollyhocks, by Shōkadō Shōjō

Poem by Onakatomi Yoshinobu with Underpainting of Hollyhocks

Shōkadō Shōjō · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Dragons and Clouds 雲龍図屏風 (左隻), by Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643)

Dragons and Clouds 雲龍図屏風 (左隻)

Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643) · 1590-1640

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poem by Fujiwara no Okikaze with Underpainting of Clematis, by Shōkadō Shōjō 松花堂昭乗

Poem by Fujiwara no Okikaze with Underpainting of Clematis

Shōkadō Shōjō 松花堂昭乗 · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Peonies and lilies 芍薬と百合図, by Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643)

Peonies and lilies 芍薬と百合図

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poem by Kamo no Chōmei with Underpainting of Cherry Blossoms, by Hon'ami Kōetsu

Poem by Kamo no Chōmei with Underpainting of Cherry Blossoms

Hon'ami Kōetsu · 1606

Public domainThe Met
Flowers of the seasons, by Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643)

Flowers of the seasons

Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643) · 1600-1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Autumn Poem by Lady Kunaikyō, by Hon'ami Kōetsu

Autumn Poem by Lady Kunaikyō

Hon'ami Kōetsu · mid-1620s

Public domainThe Met
Waves at Matsushima 松島図屏風, by Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643)

Waves at Matsushima 松島図屏風

Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643) · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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.