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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. 12 shown for “Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:00 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.

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.

Book of Humorous Poems on the Cherry Flower and the Maple Leaves (Ehō no taki) 得吉方廼滝, by Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓

Book of Humorous Poems on the Cherry Flower and the Maple Leaves (Ehō no taki) 得吉方廼滝

Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓 · 1833

Public domainThe Met
Album of Suikoden Portraits with Kyōka Poems (Kyōka suikoden gazōshū) 狂歌水滸伝画像集, by Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓

Album of Suikoden Portraits with Kyōka Poems (Kyōka suikoden gazōshū) 狂歌水滸伝画像集

Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓 · 1829

Public domainThe Met
Collected Thirty-six Kyōka Poets (Kyōka roku roku shū) 興歌六々集, by Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓

Collected Thirty-six Kyōka Poets (Kyōka roku roku shū) 興歌六々集

Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓 · 1840 (Tenpō 11)

Public domainThe Met
Picture Album of Road Pictures (of the Tōkaidō Road) (Dōchū gafu) 道中画譜, by Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓

Picture Album of Road Pictures (of the Tōkaidō Road) (Dōchū gafu) 道中画譜

Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓 · 1830s

Public domainThe Met
Kyōka Poems as Chimes along the Tōkaidō (Kyōka tokan ekiro no suzu) 狂歌東関駅路鈴, by Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓

Kyōka Poems as Chimes along the Tōkaidō (Kyōka tokan ekiro no suzu) 狂歌東関駅路鈴

Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓 · 1830 (Bunsei 13)

Public domainThe Met
Kyōka Verse Album on the Scales of the Carp (Kyōka ririnshū) 狂歌鯉鱗集, by Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓

Kyōka Verse Album on the Scales of the Carp (Kyōka ririnshū) 狂歌鯉鱗集

Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓 · 1845 (Koka 2)

Public domainThe Met
Kyōka Verse Anthology of Elegant Friends (Kyōka gayū shū) 狂歌雅友集, by Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓

Kyōka Verse Anthology of Elegant Friends (Kyōka gayū shū) 狂歌雅友集

Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓 · 1826 (Bunsei 9)

Public domainThe Met
One Hundred Comic Poems of the Flower, One of the Three Friends, Tsuki, the Moon, Yuki, the Snow, and Hana, the Flower (Sansai hana hyakushu) 三才花百首, by Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓

One Hundred Comic Poems of the Flower, One of the Three Friends, Tsuki, the Moon, Yuki, the Snow, and Hana, the Flower (Sansai hana hyakushu) 三才花百首

Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓 · 1828–30

Public domainThe Met
Views of Famous Places in Japan Paired with Kyōka Poems (Kyōka fusō meisho zue) 狂歌扶桑名所図会, by Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓

Views of Famous Places in Japan Paired with Kyōka Poems (Kyōka fusō meisho zue) 狂歌扶桑名所図会

Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓 · 1824 November (Bunsei 7)

Public domainThe Met
Tray with Noshi Paper (Noshi Indicates a Present), by Totoya Hokkei

Tray with Noshi Paper (Noshi Indicates a Present)

Totoya Hokkei · 1816

Public domainThe Met
The Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry as Kabuki Actors (Yakusha sanjūrokkasen) 役者三十六歌仙, by Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞

The Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry as Kabuki Actors (Yakusha sanjūrokkasen) 役者三十六歌仙

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 · 1835, first month (Tempō 6)

Public domainThe Met
Courtesan with Branch of Plum Blossoms, by Totoya Hokkei

Courtesan with Branch of Plum Blossoms

Totoya Hokkei · 1835

Public domainThe Met
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. 94 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 2026-08-26 18:00 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.