Repository path: workshop/canon/chumon/manifest.md · rendered 2026-09-09

Canon manifest — 注文の多い料理店（The Restaurant of Many Orders）

Canon member — D-20260723-02 (canon selection) ratified 2026-07-23 (independent adversarial review + non-Anthropic panel vote; see the resolved decision page). This manifest records the verification behind that ratification.

Bibliographic

• Work: 注文の多い料理店 — The Restaurant of Many Orders
• Author: Miyazawa Kenji 宮沢賢治 (1896–1933)
• First publication: 1924 — collection『イーハトヴ童話 注文の多い料理店』(盛岡・杜陵出版部／東京・光原社), December 1924 (初出 in file)
• Register axis: Ironic children's tale; onomatopoeia; dialogue (D-20260723-02 register axis).

Source (Aozora Bunko)

• Card: 000081 / work 1927 · file: files/1927_17906.html (Shift_JIS, decoded cp932)
• URL: https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000081/files/1927_17906.html
• Retrieved: 2026-07-23
• 底本 (source edition): 「宮沢賢治全集8」ちくま文庫、筑摩書房
• Stored member: whole work
• Local: workshop/canon/chumon/source.txt (ruby readings <rt>/<rp> and Aozora annotations ［＃…］ stripped by tools/fetch_aozora.py; paragraph breaks preserved)

Public-domain verification

• Japan (charter rule — author's death + 70 years): died 1933; 1933 + 70 = 2003 → past the death+70 threshold, so public domain in Japan (nominal onset 1 Jan 2004). Over-determined: the work was already PD under Japan's former 50-year term (from 1 Jan 1984), which the 2018 term extension did not revive — so PD status does not hinge on the extension. ✓
• US: published 1924 → public domain in the US.

Length (verified 2026-07-23)

• 5390 non-whitespace characters (4786 CJK). Criterion 3 (whole-work translatability): target ≤ ~10,000, hard ceiling ~13,000 → PASS.

Text condition

Clean, but note two source-authentic orthographic features preserved verbatim: (1) historical kana (歴史的仮名遣い) — すつかり, やうな, なほり, 二疋; (2) the vertical-writing kana iteration mark ／＼ (2 occurrences: ぴか／＼, かさ／＼ = ぴかぴか, かさかさ). Onomatopoeia- and dialogue-heavy. A translator/tool must read ／＼ as kana repetition, not literal glyphs.

Known English translations (precedent / contamination awareness)

Moderately translated (several published English versions of this well-known tale). Specific catalogue is a prior pending Slate C verification.