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. 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

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.
Album of Landscape Paintings by Ichiro Yashima (Ichirō gafu) 一老画譜, by Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭

Album of Landscape Paintings by Ichiro Yashima (Ichirō gafu) 一老画譜

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭 · 1823

Public domainThe Met
Tribonema utriculosa (Kütz.) Hazen

Tribonema utriculosa (Kütz.) Hazen

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jul 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Benzaiten ni Ryu, by Yashima Gakutei

Benzaiten ni Ryu

Yashima Gakutei

Public domainThe Met
Tribonema utriculosa (Kütz.) Hazen

Tribonema utriculosa (Kütz.) Hazen

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jul 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Tenmangu Festival at Osaka, by Yashima Gakutei

The Tenmangu Festival at Osaka

Yashima Gakutei · 1834

Public domainThe Met
Tribonema utriculosa (Kütz.) Hazen

Tribonema utriculosa (Kütz.) Hazen

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jul 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Men Wearing Green Coats, also Straw Hats with Brown Bows, by Yashima Gakutei

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

Yashima Gakutei

Public domainThe Met
Cuscuta japonica Choisy

Cuscuta japonica Choisy

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Oct 1972

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Humulus lupulus L.

Humulus lupulus L.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Oct 1972

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stone Bridge over the Aji River, Osaka, by Yashima Gakutei

Stone Bridge over the Aji River, Osaka

Yashima Gakutei · 1838

Public domainThe Met
Battle of Yashima, from the Tale of the Heike

Battle of Yashima, from the Tale of the Heike

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moonlight View of Suihiro Bridge, Tempozan, by Yashima Gakutei

Moonlight View of Suihiro Bridge, Tempozan

Yashima Gakutei · 1838

Public domainThe Met
Murasaki Shikibu composing the Tale of Genji at Ishiyamadera, by Gakutei Harunobu (active ca. 1813-ca. 1868)

Murasaki Shikibu composing the Tale of Genji at Ishiyamadera

Gakutei Harunobu (active ca. 1813-ca. 1868) · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shower-Shelter on the Shore of Tempozan Bay, by Yashima Gakutei

Shower-Shelter on the Shore of Tempozan Bay

Yashima Gakutei · 1838

Public domainThe Met
Parody of the tale of Nasu no Yoichi, by Kawamata Tsuneyuki 川又常行 (1676?-1741?)

Parody of the tale of Nasu no Yoichi

Kawamata Tsuneyuki 川又常行 (1676?-1741?) · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tempozan Man-sen Nu-shin no Zu, by Yashima Gakutei

Tempozan Man-sen Nu-shin no Zu

Yashima Gakutei · 1838

Public domainThe Met
Ichirō Picture Album (Ichirō gafu) 一老画譜, by Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭

Ichirō Picture Album (Ichirō gafu) 一老画譜

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭 · 1823, Autumn eighth month (Bunsei 6)

Public domainThe Met
Collected Light Verses and Noted Landscapes (Sansui kikan kyōka shū) 山水奇観狂歌集, by Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭

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

Public domainThe Met
Chinese Sage Evoking a Dragon, by Yashima Gakutei

Chinese Sage Evoking a Dragon

Yashima Gakutei · 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. 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.