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 “Zaō Gongen” — 40 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 21:06 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Zaō Gongen
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Yaksa form of Vajrapani (Blue Fudo)
Artist not stated in the record · 13th-14th century

Zaō Gongen
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century
Snow scene at Gongen Temple of Nezu
Kawase Hasui, Japanese, 1883 – 1957 · ca. 1920

Mirror with Zaō Gongen
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Bartramiopsis lescurii (James) Kindb.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jul 1953

Votive plaque of Zaō Gongen
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Argyreia capitata (Vahl) Choisy
Artist not stated in the record

Kumano Mandala
Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Dendropanax trifidus (Thunb.) Makino & Hara
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Oct 1981

Portrait of En no Gyōja
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Tripterygium regelii Sprague & Takeda
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Aug 1953

Portrait of En no Gyōja
Jakusai 寂済 · late 14th–15th century

Eleutherococcus divaricatus (Siebold & Zucc.) S.Y. Hu
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Oct 1981

Acer ukurunduense Trautv. & C.A. Mey.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 1953

Acer ukurunduense Trautv. & C.A. Mey.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 1953

Deparia petersenii (Kunze) M. Kato var. petersenii
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Oct 1981

Epigaea asiatiea Maxim.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 1953

Alnus maximowiczii Callier ex C.K. Schneid.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 1953
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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 32 matched · 32 examined · 18 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-08 21:06 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.