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 “Zaō Gongen” — 40 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 21:06 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.
Zaō Gongen

Zaō Gongen

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Yaksa form of Vajrapani (Blue Fudo)

Yaksa form of Vajrapani (Blue Fudo)

Artist not stated in the record · 13th-14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Zaō Gongen

Zaō Gongen

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Snow scene at Gongen Temple of Nezu, by Kawase Hasui, Japanese, 1883 – 1957

Snow scene at Gongen Temple of Nezu

Kawase Hasui, Japanese, 1883 – 1957 · ca. 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror with Zaō Gongen

Mirror with Zaō Gongen

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Bartramiopsis lescurii (James) Kindb.

Bartramiopsis lescurii (James) Kindb.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jul 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Votive plaque of Zaō Gongen

Votive plaque of Zaō Gongen

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Argyreia capitata (Vahl) Choisy

Argyreia capitata (Vahl) Choisy

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kumano Mandala

Kumano Mandala

Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Dendropanax trifidus (Thunb.) Makino & Hara

Dendropanax trifidus (Thunb.) Makino & Hara

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Oct 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of En no Gyōja

Portrait of En no Gyōja

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Tripterygium regelii Sprague & Takeda

Tripterygium regelii Sprague & Takeda

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Aug 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of En no Gyōja, by Jakusai 寂済

Portrait of En no Gyōja

Jakusai 寂済 · late 14th–15th century

Public domainThe Met
Eleutherococcus divaricatus (Siebold & Zucc.) S.Y. Hu

Eleutherococcus divaricatus (Siebold & Zucc.) S.Y. Hu

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Oct 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Acer ukurunduense Trautv. & C.A. Mey.

Acer ukurunduense Trautv. & C.A. Mey.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Acer ukurunduense Trautv. & C.A. Mey.

Acer ukurunduense Trautv. & C.A. Mey.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Deparia petersenii (Kunze) M. Kato var. petersenii

Deparia petersenii (Kunze) M. Kato var. petersenii

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Oct 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Epigaea asiatiea Maxim.

Epigaea asiatiea Maxim.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alnus maximowiczii Callier ex C.K. Schneid.

Alnus maximowiczii Callier ex C.K. Schneid.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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. 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.