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. 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

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.
Amerikajin, by Utagawa Yoshikazu

Amerikajin

Utagawa Yoshikazu · 1862

Public domainThe Met
Two symbolic figures (Kuniyoshi), by Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳 (1798-1861)

Two symbolic figures (Kuniyoshi)

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Englishmen, by Utagawa Yoshikazu

Englishmen

Utagawa Yoshikazu · ca. 1862

Public domainThe Met
Geisha

Geisha

Artist not stated in the record · 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
France, by Utagawa Yoshikazu

France

Utagawa Yoshikazu

Public domainThe Met
Isachne nipponensis Ohwi

Isachne nipponensis Ohwi

Artist not stated in the record · 1862 to 1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
France, by Utagawa Yoshikazu

France

Utagawa Yoshikazu

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
Furansujin (Frenchman), by Utagawa Yoshikazu

Furansujin (Frenchman)

Utagawa Yoshikazu · dated 1861

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
French Photographer, by Utagawa Yoshikazu

French Photographer

Utagawa Yoshikazu · 1861

Public domainThe Met
The actor Yae Misazo

The actor Yae Misazo

Artist not stated in the record · 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Furansukoku (France), by Utagawa Yoshikazu

Furansukoku (France)

Utagawa Yoshikazu · 1861

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
Englishmen, by Utagawa Yoshikazu

Englishmen

Utagawa Yoshikazu · 1861

Public domainThe Met
Chokichi, "the untamed horse"

Chokichi, "the untamed horse"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dutch Couple, by Utagawa Yoshikazu

Dutch Couple

Utagawa Yoshikazu · 10th month, 1862

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
Russian Printers, by Utagawa Yoshikazu

Russian Printers

Utagawa Yoshikazu · 2nd month, 1861

Public domainThe Met
The actor Igoro Sawai

The actor Igoro Sawai

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Dutch Group, by Utagawa Yoshikazu

A Dutch Group

Utagawa Yoshikazu · 2nd month, 1861

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
French Couple, by Utagawa Yoshikazu

French Couple

Utagawa Yoshikazu · 4th month, 1861

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. 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.