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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
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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chōmeiji Temple (Chōmeiji), from the series Miracles of Kannon
Utagawa Hiroshige II 二代目歌川広重 · 1859

Main Street of the Yoshiwara on a Starlight Night
Utagawa Kunisada II · 1852–64

Portrait of Iwai Kumesaburō II
Utagawa Kunisada · ca. 1827–29 (Kansei 10–12)

Night Rain at Ōyama, from the series "Eight Famous Views of Kanagawa"
Utagawa Toyokuni II · ca. 1830

Iwai Shijaku II as Okame, the Daughter of a Furniture Store
Utagawa Kunisada II · 1864
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.