OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

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 “Tosa Mitsuoki (1617-1691)” — 48 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 13:46 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.
Quail and Autumn Flowers, by Tosa Mitsuoki

Quail and Autumn Flowers

Tosa Mitsuoki · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
The Tale of Genji, chapter 2: Prince Genji's visit to Utsusemi, by Tosa Mitsuoki (1617-1691)

The Tale of Genji, chapter 2: Prince Genji's visit to Utsusemi

Tosa Mitsuoki (1617-1691) · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heron, by Tosa Mitsuoki

Heron

Tosa Mitsuoki · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
The Tale of Genji, Chapter 34; Kashiwagi catches sight of the Third Princess, by Tosa Mitsuoki (1617-1691)

The Tale of Genji, Chapter 34; Kashiwagi catches sight of the Third Princess

Tosa Mitsuoki (1617-1691) · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portraits of Three Famous Poets: Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, Lady Ise, and Ono no Komachi, by Tosa Mitsuoki

Portraits of Three Famous Poets: Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, Lady Ise, and Ono no Komachi

Tosa Mitsuoki · 1691

Public domainThe Met
Landscapes of the four seasons, by Tosa Mitsuoki (1617-1691)

Landscapes of the four seasons

Tosa Mitsuoki (1617-1691) · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Egrets and Cotton Roses, by Tosa Mitsuoki

Egrets and Cotton Roses

Tosa Mitsuoki · mid- to late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Schisandra repanda (Siebold & Zucc.) Radlk.

Schisandra repanda (Siebold & Zucc.) Radlk.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jul 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Garden of Celebrated Japanese and Chinese Paintings (Wakan meigaen} 和漢名画苑, by Ooka Shunboku 大岡春卜

A Garden of Celebrated Japanese and Chinese Paintings (Wakan meigaen} 和漢名画苑

Ooka Shunboku 大岡春卜 · 1750

Public domainThe Met
Miricacalia makineana (Yatabe) Kitam.

Miricacalia makineana (Yatabe) Kitam.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jul 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Albums of scenes from The Tale of Genji, by Tosa Mitsunori

Albums of scenes from The Tale of Genji

Tosa Mitsunori · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Stereocaulon commixtum (Asahina) Asahina

Stereocaulon commixtum (Asahina) Asahina

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Dec 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
“An Imperial Excursion” (Miyuki), “A Boat Cast Adrift” (Ukifune), and “The Barrier Gate” (Sekiya), by Tosa Mitsuyoshi

“An Imperial Excursion” (Miyuki), “A Boat Cast Adrift” (Ukifune), and “The Barrier Gate” (Sekiya)

Tosa Mitsuyoshi · mid-16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Siphonalia lubrica

Siphonalia lubrica

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
“Butterflies” (Kochō), from the Tale of Genji, by Tosa Mitsuyoshi

“Butterflies” (Kochō), from the Tale of Genji

Tosa Mitsuyoshi · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Ctenitis cf. subglandulosa (Hance) Ching

Ctenitis cf. subglandulosa (Hance) Ching

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Aug 1892

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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 685 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 13:46 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.