Bedtime Tales

Bedtime Tales
Author	Yoko Mori
Original title	別タイトル: ベッドのおとぎばなし; Beddo no otogibanashi
Translator	Sonya L. Johnson
Language	Japanese
Genre	Short Stories
Publisher	Kodansha International
Publication date	1987
Publication place	Japan
Published in English	1993
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	206 pp (US 1st edition)
ISBN	4-06-186097-6 (Japan English 1st edition)

Bedtime Tales (Japanese: 別タイトル: ベッドのおとぎばなし; Beddo no otogibanashi) (1987) is a collection of short stories published in 1987 by Japanese author Yoko Mori. The collection was translated by Sonya L. Johnson and was published by Kodansha under the Kodansha English Library series in 1993.

Themes

The stories follow the same themes used in Mori's later works and follow the lives of Japanese women living in a male dominated Japan.

Stories

Sudden Shower - The 1st Night
Credit Card - The 2nd Night
Bloody Mary - The 3rd Night
The Thirteenth Hour - The 4th Night
Women Friends - The 6th Night
Office Love - The 8th Night
Christmas Eve - The 13th Night
The Jade Earrings - The 15th Night
The Woman in the Mirror - The 23rd Night
A Call in the Night - The 24th Night
The Thorn in the Rose - The 28th Night
Home, Sweet Home - The 31st Night

Sequel

Beddo no otogibanashi Part II was published in 1989 and is also another collection of short stories.

References

↑ NACSIS Webcat: 詳細表示 Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on March 15, 2010.
↑ Japanese women writers: a bio-critical sourcebook Chieko Irie Mulhern. [Pages 242 - 248 Retrieved on March 15, 2010.
↑ Donath, Diana (2007). "Mori Yôko : charmante Vermittlerin eines neuen Frauenbildes" [Mori Yôko: charming mediator of a new image of women]. Asiatische Studien (in German). 61 (2): 425–445. doi:10.5169/seals-147744.

External links

https://web.archive.org/web/20110514002639/http://www.iblist.com/author7086.htm

[1] NACSIS Webcat: 詳細表示 Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on March 15, 2010.

[2] Japanese women writers: a bio-critical sourcebook Chieko Irie Mulhern. [Pages 242 - 248 Retrieved on March 15, 2010.

[3] Donath, Diana (2007). "Mori Yôko : charmante Vermittlerin eines neuen Frauenbildes" [Mori Yôko: charming mediator of a new image of women]. Asiatische Studien (in German). 61 (2): 425–445. doi:10.5169/seals-147744.