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. 23 shown for “Utagawa Yoshikazu” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 12:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Amerikajin
Utagawa Yoshikazu · 1862

Two symbolic figures (Kuniyoshi)
Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳 (1798-1861) · 1797-1861

Englishmen
Utagawa Yoshikazu · ca. 1862

Geisha
Artist not stated in the record · 1855

France
Utagawa Yoshikazu

Isachne nipponensis Ohwi
Artist not stated in the record · 1862 to 1957

France
Utagawa Yoshikazu

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

Furansujin (Frenchman)
Utagawa Yoshikazu · dated 1861

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

French Photographer
Utagawa Yoshikazu · 1861

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

Furansukoku (France)
Utagawa Yoshikazu · 1861

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

Englishmen
Utagawa Yoshikazu · 1861

Chokichi, "the untamed horse"
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

Dutch Couple
Utagawa Yoshikazu · 10th month, 1862

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

Russian Printers
Utagawa Yoshikazu · 2nd month, 1861

The actor Igoro Sawai
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

A Dutch Group
Utagawa Yoshikazu · 2nd month, 1861

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

French Couple
Utagawa Yoshikazu · 4th month, 1861
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. 45 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. 86 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 12:21 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.