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. 24 shown for “Utagawa Toyoharu (1735-1814)” — 63 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-09 17:31 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Perspective Print: Shinobazu Pond
Utagawa Toyoharu

Two women and a girl on the seashore
Utagawa Toyoharu (1735-1814) · 1735-1814

Battle of Ichi–no–tani, March 21, 1184
Utagawa Toyoharu

Ryogoku Bridge
Utagawa Toyoharu (1735-1814) · early 19th century

Cooling at Nakazu/ Kabuki Theater
Utagawa Toyoharu

A Courtesan and her attendant
Utagawa Toyoharu (1735-1814) · 1735-1868

Kawabiraki
Utagawa Toyoharu · ca. 1805

Woman walking in a breeze
Utagawa Toyoharu (1735-1814) · 1735-1814

Tea–house; Scene entitled: "Viewing the Moon in mid–autumn"
Utagawa Toyoharu

Interior scene of a party with geisha and clients
Utagawa Toyoharu (1735-1814) · 1735-1814

Edo Hakkei no Zu
Utagawa Toyoharu · ca. 1780

Benjamin Thompson
Edward C. Trenchard, 1777 - 1824? · 1798

Sakaichō Fukiyachō Kaomise Yoshibai no Zu
Utagawa Toyoharu · ca. 1780

Geisha
Artist not stated in the record · 1855

Cock, Hen, and Chickens
Utagawa Toyoharu · ca. 1770

Pentaptych: Five girls with theater puppets
Utagawa Kuniyasu, Japanese, 1794 – 1832 · 1805–20

Sakaichō Fukiyachō Kaomise Yoshibai no Zu
Utagawa Toyoharu · ca. 1780

Pentaptych: Five girls with theater puppets
Utagawa Kuniyasu, Japanese, 1794 – 1832 · 1805–20

New Great Bridge at Naka Zu in Edo
Utagawa Toyoharu · ca. 1780

The actor Yae Misazo
Artist not stated in the record · 1858

Crane and Their Young in Their Nest in the Branches of a Pine-tree
Utagawa Toyoharu · ca. 1790

Part of a triptych: man with a parasol
Artist not stated in the record · 1854

Perspective Print (Uki-e) of the Theaters in Sakaichō and Fukiyachō on Opening Night
Utagawa Toyoharu · ca. 1780

Chokichi, "the untamed horse"
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850
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. 23 matched · 23 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. 87 matched · 40 examined · 25 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-09 17:31 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.