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. 9 shown for “Unkoku Tōgan” — 9 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:36 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.

Portrait of Daruma
Unkoku Tōgan · early 17th century

Priest Xianzi
Unkoku Tōgan · second half 16th century–early 17th century

Landscape of the Four Seasons
Unkoku Tōgan · late 16th–early 17th century

Bodhidharma
Unkoku Tōgan · early 17th century

Scenes from the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers
Unkoku Tōeki · 17th century

Cherry Blossom Viewing at Itsukushima and Yoshino
Artist not stated in the record · first half 17th century

Zen Master with Meditation Staff, and Chinese-Style Landscapes
Unkoku Tōeki · probably late 1620s–1644

Zheng Huangniu and Yushanzhu
Kano Naizen · early 17th century

Hawks with Pine Trees and Camellias; Small Birds with Willows and Camellias
Mitani Tōshuku · early 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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 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 2026-08-27 21:36 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.