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

Canon manifest — 高瀬舟（Takasebune / The Boat on the Takase River）

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: 高瀬舟 — Takasebune / The Boat on the Takase River
• Author: Mori Ōgai 森鴎外 (1862–1922)
• First publication: 1916 — 『中央公論』第三十一年第一號 (Chūō Kōron), January 1916 (初出 in file)
• Register axis: Measured, quasi-classical moral tale (D-20260723-02 register axis).

Source (Aozora Bunko)

• Card: 000129 / work 691 · file: files/691_15352.html (Shift_JIS, decoded cp932)
• URL: https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000129/files/691_15352.html
• Retrieved: 2026-07-23
• 底本 (source edition): 「日本現代文學全集 7 森鴎外集」講談社
• Stored member: whole work
• Local: workshop/canon/takasebune/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 1922; 1922 + 70 = 1992 → past the death+70 threshold, so public domain in Japan (nominal onset 1 Jan 1993). Over-determined: the work was already PD under Japan's former 50-year term (from 1 Jan 1973), which the 2018 term extension did not revive — so PD status does not hinge on the extension. ✓
• US: published 1916 → public domain in the US.

Length (verified 2026-07-23)

• 8368 non-whitespace characters (7725 CJK) (corrected 2026-07-28, S051; was 8366 / 7723 — see Text condition). Criterion 3 (whole-work translatability): target ≤ ~10,000, hard ceiling ~13,000 → PASS.

Text condition

Clean; ruby stripped by tag removal (no gaiji notes). Measured, quasi-classical moral-tale diction.

Corrected 2026-07-28 (S051) — the "no gaiji notes" clause above was false and the stored text was missing characters. tools/fetch_aozora.py counted only the plain-text edition's ※［＃…］ annotation; Aozora's HTML edition renders a JIS X 0213 level-3/4 character as <img class="gaiji" alt="※(…、第N水準P-KK-TT)">, which the generic tag strip deleted silently. 2 characters were lost, both inside the span S051 translated: 譃 (第4水準2-88-74) in 「しかしそれは譃である」 — Shōbei calling his own explanation a lie, the pivot of that paragraph, stored as 「しかしそれはである」 — and 睜 (第3水準1-88-85) in 「驚異の目を睜つて」. The tool now resolves the alt-text code to the character via the euc_jis_2004 codec (unresolvable codes become a visible ※［＃…］), and the source was regenerated. Length above is the corrected count. RS-20260728h-gaiji-deletion.

Known English translations (precedent / contamination awareness)

Rarely translated relative to the Akutagawa works — the low-contamination end of the canon's criterion-6 mix. Specific catalogue is a prior pending Slate C verification.