The Bamboo Cutter and the Moon Child - A Fairy Tale Sleep Story

Just Sleep - Bedtime Stories for Adults

Taesha Glasgow

Stories To Help You Sleep, Unknown, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Mental Health, Just Sleep, Bedtime Stories For Adults

4 • 748 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Tonight's bedtime story is The Bamboo Cutter and the Moon Child. A Japanese fairy tale compiled by Yei Theodora Ozaki. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app. In this story, an old bamboo cutter finds a bright being amongst his bamboo one day. She grows up to be beautiful and pursued by many suitors. Where is she from? Will she find love?

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0:00.0	Good evening. Welcome to the Just Sleep podcast. I'm Tasia, your host. Every week, I will read you
0:17.1	an old story to help you relax, put the stressful day behind you, and drift off to sleep.
0:34.1	Occasionally, we will run ads in order to cover the costs of the production of the podcast.
0:42.0	Rest assured, there will be no ads during or after the story.
0:48.8	If you prefer an ad-free and intro-free show, you can join Just Sleep Premium.
0:59.3	Visit JustSleeppodcast.com
1:02.7	slash support for more information.
1:09.5	Do, do, do, do, bumper.
1:16.6	Bampa!
1:19.6	Okay, enough Rasmataz.
1:22.2	But it's not every day a new scratch card drops.
1:24.9	With the new set for five years scratch card from the National Lottery.
1:28.8	You could win five grand a month, every month for five years.
1:32.5	Pick up yours in store today and get scratching.
1:35.6	Search Dream Big Place Mall. Rules, procedures and game-specific rules apply.
1:38.5	Place must be 18 or over.
1:53.0	Tonight, I will be reading a Japanese fairy tale, the bamboo cutter and the moon child. So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story.
2:09.2	Long, long ago, there lived an old bamboo woodcutter.
2:17.2	He was very poor and sad also, for no child had heaven sent to chair his old age.
2:22.0	And in his heart there was no hope of rest from work till he died.
2:26.3	Every morning he went forth into the woods and hills,
2:31.7	wherever the bamboo reared its lithe green plumes against the sky.
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