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. 19 shown for “Yashima Gakutei” — 33 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 07:39 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Album of Landscape Paintings by Ichiro Yashima (Ichirō gafu) 一老画譜
Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭 · 1823
Tribonema utriculosa (Kütz.) Hazen
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jul 1935

Benzaiten ni Ryu
Yashima Gakutei
Tribonema utriculosa (Kütz.) Hazen
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jul 1935

The Tenmangu Festival at Osaka
Yashima Gakutei · 1834
Tribonema utriculosa (Kütz.) Hazen
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jul 1935

Two Men Wearing Green Coats, also Straw Hats with Brown Bows
Yashima Gakutei

Cuscuta japonica Choisy
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Oct 1972

Humulus lupulus L.
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Oct 1972

Stone Bridge over the Aji River, Osaka
Yashima Gakutei · 1838

Battle of Yashima, from the Tale of the Heike
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Moonlight View of Suihiro Bridge, Tempozan
Yashima Gakutei · 1838

Murasaki Shikibu composing the Tale of Genji at Ishiyamadera
Gakutei Harunobu (active ca. 1813-ca. 1868) · 19th century

Shower-Shelter on the Shore of Tempozan Bay
Yashima Gakutei · 1838

Parody of the tale of Nasu no Yoichi
Kawamata Tsuneyuki 川又常行 (1676?-1741?) · 1615-1868

Tempozan Man-sen Nu-shin no Zu
Yashima Gakutei · 1838

Ichirō Picture Album (Ichirō gafu) 一老画譜
Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭 · 1823, Autumn eighth month (Bunsei 6)

Collected Light Verses and Noted Landscapes (Sansui kikan kyōka shū) 山水奇観狂歌集
Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭 · ca. 1820

Chinese Sage Evoking a Dragon
Yashima Gakutei · ca. 1825
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. 98 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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 07:39 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.