OpenTwo 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 “Utagawa Hiroshige II 歌川広重 二世 (1826-1869)” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 15:52 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.
Chōmeiji Temple (Chōmeiji), from the series Miracles of Kannon
Utagawa Hiroshige II 二代目歌川広重 · 1859
Hiroshige Picture Album (Hiroshige gafu) 広重画譜
Utagawa Hiroshige II 二代目歌川広重 · 1862 (Bunkyū 2)
Ochanomizu
Utagawa Hiroshige II
江戸高名会亭尽 池之端 蓬莱亭 青楼花見の休み
Utagawa Hiroshige
Dramatic Picture of Sakura
Utagawa Hiroshige II
Sumidagawa Mimeguri Hana Zakari no Kei
Utagawa Hiroshige II
Paulownia Trees at Akasaka in the Evening Rain
Utagawa Hiroshige II · 1859
Tango Amano Hashidate
Utagawa Hiroshige II · 1859–61
Ryogoku Kawarabiraki Hanami
Utagawa Hiroshige II · 1862
Evening View of Kiribata in Rain at Akasaka
Utagawa Hiroshige II · 1859
Akasaka Kiri-Ratake Uchu Yu Kei
Utagawa Hiroshige II · ca. 1859
Famous Places of Edo: Shiba Shinmei
Utagawa Hiroshige II · 19th 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. 29 matched · 24 examined · 1 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 15:52 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.