Bedtime Tales ( ja, 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 Yoko Mori (森瑤子) (November 4, 1940 July 6, 1993) was a Japanese novelist, essayist, and translator who was known for writing popular romantic fiction. Her real name was Masayo Brackin ( Ito). Biography Mori was born Masayo Ito in Shizuoka, ...

. The collection was translated by Sonya L. Johnson and was published by

Kodansha is a Japanese privately-held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha is the largest Japanese publishing company, and it produces the manga magazines ''Nakayoshi'', ''Afternoon'', ''Evening'', ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' an ...

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.{{cite journal , last1=Donath , first1=Diana , title=Mori Yôko : charmante Vermittlerin eines neuen Frauenbildes , trans-title=Mori Yôko: charming mediator of a new image of women , language=de , journal=Asiatische Studien , volume=61 , issue=2 , year=2007 , pages=425–445 , doi=10.5169/seals-147744

References

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20110514002639/http://www.iblist.com/author7086.htm Japanese short stories