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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. 12 shown for “Yanagawa Shigenobu 柳川重信” — 19 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:47 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.

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.

Collection of Famous Kyōka Poems Selected by Shakuyakutei ( Meisū kyōkashu) 名数狂歌集, by Yanagawa Shigenobu 柳川重信

Collection of Famous Kyōka Poems Selected by Shakuyakutei ( Meisū kyōkashu) 名数狂歌集

Yanagawa Shigenobu 柳川重信 · 1839 (Tenpō 10)

Public domainThe Met
Picture Book of the Wisteria Trousers (Ehon fujibakama) 絵本ふちはかま; えほんふじばかま, by Yanagawa Shigenobu 柳川重信

Picture Book of the Wisteria Trousers (Ehon fujibakama) 絵本ふちはかま; えほんふじばかま

Yanagawa Shigenobu 柳川重信 · 1823

Public domainThe Met
Floating Bridge of Heaven (Ama no ukihashi) 天野浮橋, by Yanagawa Shigenobu 柳川重信

Floating Bridge of Heaven (Ama no ukihashi) 天野浮橋

Yanagawa Shigenobu 柳川重信 · ca. 1830s

Public domainThe Met
The Courtesan Hanatsuru of the Higashiōgiya Brothel as the Dragon Princess Otohime, from the series Costume Parade of the Shinmachi Quarter in Osaka (Ōsaka Shinmachi nerimono), by Yanagawa Shigenobu 柳川重信

The Courtesan Hanatsuru of the Higashiōgiya Brothel as the Dragon Princess Otohime, from the series Costume Parade of the Shinmachi Quarter in Osaka (Ōsaka Shinmachi nerimono)

Yanagawa Shigenobu 柳川重信 · 1822

Public domainThe Met
Konami of the Kurahashiya in the Front Group of Musicians (Saki-bayashi), from the series Costume Parade of the Shinmachi Quarter in Osaka (Ōsaka Shinmachi nerimono), by Yanagawa Shigenobu 柳川重信

Konami of the Kurahashiya in the Front Group of Musicians (Saki-bayashi), from the series Costume Parade of the Shinmachi Quarter in Osaka (Ōsaka Shinmachi nerimono)

Yanagawa Shigenobu 柳川重信 · 1822

Public domainThe Met
The Courtesan Kotozuru of the Tsuruya Brothel as an Asazuma Boat Prostitute (Tsuruya Kotozuru-dayū Asazuma-bune), from the series Costume Parade of the Shinmachi Quarter in Osaka (Ōsaka Shinmachi nerimono), by Yanagawa Shigenobu 柳川重信

The Courtesan Kotozuru of the Tsuruya Brothel as an Asazuma Boat Prostitute (Tsuruya Kotozuru-dayū Asazuma-bune), from the series Costume Parade of the Shinmachi Quarter in Osaka (Ōsaka Shinmachi nerimono)

Yanagawa Shigenobu 柳川重信 · 1822

Public domainThe Met
Book of Humorous Poems "Hundred Thousand Birds" (Kyōka momochidori), by Yanagawa Shigenobu

Book of Humorous Poems "Hundred Thousand Birds" (Kyōka momochidori)

Yanagawa Shigenobu · 1830

Public domainThe Met
Celebrated Waterfall, by Yanagawa Shigenobu

Celebrated Waterfall

Yanagawa Shigenobu · 1820–1830

Public domainThe Met
Court Lady Praising the Plum Blossom, by Yanagawa Shigenobu

Court Lady Praising the Plum Blossom

Yanagawa Shigenobu · 1830

Public domainThe Met
New Year Greeting Card for "Rat" Year, by Yanagawa Shigenobu

New Year Greeting Card for "Rat" Year

Yanagawa Shigenobu · 1828

Public domainThe Met
Women Playing Music, by Yanagawa Shigenobu

Women Playing Music

Yanagawa Shigenobu · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Hinazuru of Naka Ogi-ya as an Onna Jittoku, by Yanagawa Shigenobu

Hinazuru of Naka Ogi-ya as an Onna Jittoku

Yanagawa Shigenobu · ca. 1825

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. 19 matched · 19 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 19:47 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.