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Canon manifest — 夢十夜（第一夜・第二夜）（Ten Nights of Dreams (Nights 1–2)）

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: 夢十夜（第一夜・第二夜） — Ten Nights of Dreams (Nights 1–2)
• Author: Natsume Sōseki 夏目漱石 (1867–1916)
• First publication: 1908 — serialized in 朝日新聞 (Asahi Shimbun), July–August 1908
• Register axis: Dream prose, uncanny, Meiji diction (D-20260723-02 register axis).

Source (Aozora Bunko)

• Card: 000148 / work 799 · file: files/799_14972.html (Shift_JIS, decoded cp932)
• URL: https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000148/files/799_14972.html
• Retrieved: 2026-07-23
• 底本 (source edition): 「夏目漱石全集10巻」ちくま文庫、筑摩書房
• Stored member: EXCERPT — nights 一 and 二 only, of the ten-night work. Extracted from the cleaned full text (15,864 non-ws chars) as lines 1–72, cut immediately before the 第三夜 header. The excerpt is the canon member; the full work is not stored.
• Local: workshop/canon/yumejuya-1-2/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 1916; 1916 + 70 = 1986 → past the death+70 threshold, so public domain in Japan (nominal onset 1 Jan 1987). Over-determined: the work was already PD under Japan's former 50-year term (from 1 Jan 1967), which the 2018 term extension did not revive — so PD status does not hinge on the extension. ✓
• US: published 1908 → public domain in the US.

Length (verified 2026-07-23)

• 3323 non-whitespace characters (3053 CJK) (corrected 2026-07-28, S051; was 3322 / 2999. Only one of those corrections is the gaiji repair — the CJK figure was independently wrong: the stored excerpt as it stood on 2026-07-23 already measured 3052 CJK by this manifest's own tool, so 2999 was a transcription error and is not evidence of any further textual loss. 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). Meiji diction; uncanny dream prose.

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. 1 character was lost inside the stored excerpt — 睜 (第3水準1-88-85) in 「黒い眼を睜たまま」, night 1. Two further gaiji (睜, 戢) sit in nights 3–10 and are outside the stored member. 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)

Moderately translated as a whole work (several published English versions of 夢十夜). Specific catalogue is a prior pending Slate C verification.