OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

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

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.
Perspective Print: Shinobazu Pond, by Utagawa Toyoharu

Perspective Print: Shinobazu Pond

Utagawa Toyoharu

Public domainThe Met
Two women and a girl on the seashore, by Utagawa Toyoharu (1735-1814)

Two women and a girl on the seashore

Utagawa Toyoharu (1735-1814) · 1735-1814

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Battle of Ichi–no–tani, March 21, 1184, by Utagawa Toyoharu

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

Utagawa Toyoharu

Public domainThe Met
Ryogoku Bridge, by Utagawa Toyoharu (1735-1814)

Ryogoku Bridge

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cooling at Nakazu/ Kabuki Theater, by Utagawa Toyoharu

Cooling at Nakazu/ Kabuki Theater

Utagawa Toyoharu

Public domainThe Met
A Courtesan and her attendant, by Utagawa Toyoharu (1735-1814)

A Courtesan and her attendant

Utagawa Toyoharu (1735-1814) · 1735-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kawabiraki, by Utagawa Toyoharu

Kawabiraki

Utagawa Toyoharu · ca. 1805

Public domainThe Met
Woman walking in a breeze, by Utagawa Toyoharu (1735-1814)

Woman walking in a breeze

Utagawa Toyoharu (1735-1814) · 1735-1814

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea–house; Scene entitled: "Viewing the Moon in mid–autumn", by Utagawa Toyoharu

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

Utagawa Toyoharu

Public domainThe Met
Interior scene of a party with geisha and clients, by Utagawa Toyoharu (1735-1814)

Interior scene of a party with geisha and clients

Utagawa Toyoharu (1735-1814) · 1735-1814

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Edo Hakkei no Zu, by Utagawa Toyoharu

Edo Hakkei no Zu

Utagawa Toyoharu · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Benjamin Thompson, by Edward C. Trenchard, 1777 - 1824?

Benjamin Thompson

Edward C. Trenchard, 1777 - 1824? · 1798

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sakaichō Fukiyachō Kaomise Yoshibai no Zu, by Utagawa Toyoharu

Sakaichō Fukiyachō Kaomise Yoshibai no Zu

Utagawa Toyoharu · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Geisha

Geisha

Artist not stated in the record · 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cock, Hen, and Chickens, by Utagawa Toyoharu

Cock, Hen, and Chickens

Utagawa Toyoharu · ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Pentaptych: Five girls with theater puppets, by Utagawa Kuniyasu, Japanese, 1794 – 1832

Pentaptych: Five girls with theater puppets

Utagawa Kuniyasu, Japanese, 1794 – 1832 · 1805–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sakaichō Fukiyachō Kaomise Yoshibai no Zu, by Utagawa Toyoharu

Sakaichō Fukiyachō Kaomise Yoshibai no Zu

Utagawa Toyoharu · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Pentaptych: Five girls with theater puppets, by Utagawa Kuniyasu, Japanese, 1794 – 1832

Pentaptych: Five girls with theater puppets

Utagawa Kuniyasu, Japanese, 1794 – 1832 · 1805–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
New Great Bridge at Naka Zu in Edo, by Utagawa Toyoharu

New Great Bridge at Naka Zu in Edo

Utagawa Toyoharu · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
The actor Yae Misazo

The actor Yae Misazo

Artist not stated in the record · 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crane and Their Young in Their Nest in the Branches of a Pine-tree, by Utagawa Toyoharu

Crane and Their Young in Their Nest in the Branches of a Pine-tree

Utagawa Toyoharu · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Part of a triptych: man with a parasol

Part of a triptych: man with a parasol

Artist not stated in the record · 1854

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Perspective Print (Uki-e) of the Theaters in Sakaichō and Fukiyachō on Opening Night, by Utagawa Toyoharu

Perspective Print (Uki-e) of the Theaters in Sakaichō and Fukiyachō on Opening Night

Utagawa Toyoharu · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Chokichi, "the untamed horse"

Chokichi, "the untamed horse"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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. 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.