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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 “Utagawa Kuniaki II” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 02:08 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.

Act VII (Dai nanadanme): Actors Kataoka Nizaemon VIII as Ōboshi Yuranosuke, Sawamura Tanosuke as Okaru, from the series The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers, a Primer (Kanadehon chūshingura), by Utagawa Kuniaki II

Act VII (Dai nanadanme): Actors Kataoka Nizaemon VIII as Ōboshi Yuranosuke, Sawamura Tanosuke as Okaru, from the series The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers, a Primer (Kanadehon chūshingura)

Utagawa Kuniaki II · 1862 (Bunkyū 2), 6th month

Public domainThe Met
Act VIII (Dai hachidanme): Actors Bandō Hikosaburō V as Honzō's Wife (Nyōbō) Tonase and Sawamura Tosshō II as His Daughter (Musume) Konami, from the series The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers, a Primer (Kanadehon chūshingura), by Utagawa Kuniaki II

Act VIII (Dai hachidanme): Actors Bandō Hikosaburō V as Honzō's Wife (Nyōbō) Tonase and Sawamura Tosshō II as His Daughter (Musume) Konami, from the series The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers, a Primer (Kanadehon chūshingura)

Utagawa Kuniaki II · 1862 (Bunkyū 2), 6th month

Public domainThe Met
Act IX (Dai kudanme): Actors Sawamura Tanosuke III as Ōboshi Rikiya and Bandō Kamezō I as Kakogawa Honzō, from the series The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers, a Primer (Kanadehon chūshingura), by Utagawa Kuniaki II

Act IX (Dai kudanme): Actors Sawamura Tanosuke III as Ōboshi Rikiya and Bandō Kamezō I as Kakogawa Honzō, from the series The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers, a Primer (Kanadehon chūshingura)

Utagawa Kuniaki II · 1862 (Bunkyū 2), 6th month

Public domainThe Met
Act X (Dai jūdanme): Actors Kataoka Nizaemon VIII as Ōboshi Yuranosuke, Bandō Kamezō I as Amakawaya Gihei, and Ichikawa Dannosuke V as His Wife (Nyōbō) Osono, from the series The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers, a Primer (Kanadehon chūshingura), by Utagawa Kuniaki II

Act X (Dai jūdanme): Actors Kataoka Nizaemon VIII as Ōboshi Yuranosuke, Bandō Kamezō I as Amakawaya Gihei, and Ichikawa Dannosuke V as His Wife (Nyōbō) Osono, from the series The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers, a Primer (Kanadehon chūshingura)

Utagawa Kuniaki II · 1862 (Bunkyū 2), 6th month

Public domainThe Met
Act VI (Dai rokudanme): Actors Bandō Hikosaburō as Hayano Kanpei and Sawamura Tanosuke as His Wife Okaru, from the series The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers, a Primer (Kanadehon chūshingura), by Utagawa Kuniaki II

Act VI (Dai rokudanme): Actors Bandō Hikosaburō as Hayano Kanpei and Sawamura Tanosuke as His Wife Okaru, from the series The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers, a Primer (Kanadehon chūshingura)

Utagawa Kuniaki II · 1862 (Bunkyū 2), 6th month

Public domainThe Met
Act III (Dai sandanme): Actors Bandō Hikosaburō V as Hayano Kanpei and Sawamura Tanosuke III as Koshimoto Okaru, from the series The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers, a Primer (Kanadehon chūshingura), by Utagawa Kuniaki II

Act III (Dai sandanme): Actors Bandō Hikosaburō V as Hayano Kanpei and Sawamura Tanosuke III as Koshimoto Okaru, from the series The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers, a Primer (Kanadehon chūshingura)

Utagawa Kuniaki II · 1862 (Bunkyū 2), 6th month

Public domainThe Met
Act XI (Dai jūichidanme): Actors Kataoka Nizaemon VIII as Ōboshi Yuranosuke and Bandō Kamezō I as Kō no Moronao, from the series The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers, a Primer (Kanadehon chūshingura), by Utagawa Kuniaki II

Act XI (Dai jūichidanme): Actors Kataoka Nizaemon VIII as Ōboshi Yuranosuke and Bandō Kamezō I as Kō no Moronao, from the series The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers, a Primer (Kanadehon chūshingura)

Utagawa Kuniaki II · 1862 (Bunkyū 2), 6th month

Public domainThe Met
Chōmeiji Temple (Chōmeiji), from the series Miracles of Kannon, by Utagawa Hiroshige II 二代目歌川広重

Chōmeiji Temple (Chōmeiji), from the series Miracles of Kannon

Utagawa Hiroshige II 二代目歌川広重 · 1859

Public domainThe Met
Main Street of the Yoshiwara on a Starlight Night, by Utagawa Kunisada II

Main Street of the Yoshiwara on a Starlight Night

Utagawa Kunisada II · 1852–64

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Iwai Kumesaburō II, by Utagawa Kunisada

Portrait of Iwai Kumesaburō II

Utagawa Kunisada · ca. 1827–29 (Kansei 10–12)

Public domainThe Met
Night Rain at Ōyama, from the series "Eight Famous Views of Kanagawa", by Utagawa Toyokuni II

Night Rain at Ōyama, from the series "Eight Famous Views of Kanagawa"

Utagawa Toyokuni II · ca. 1830

Public domainThe Met
Iwai Shijaku II as Okame, the Daughter of a Furniture Store, by Utagawa Kunisada II

Iwai Shijaku II as Okame, the Daughter of a Furniture Store

Utagawa Kunisada II · 1864

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. 64 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 2026-08-27 02:08 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.