An elegant and absorbing tour of Tokyo and its residents From 1632 until 1854, Japan\'s rulers restricted contact with foreign countries, a near isolation that fostered a remarkable and unique culture that endures to this day.
An exploration of Tokyo becomes a meditation not just o.
In hypnotic prose and sensual detail, Anna Sherman describes searching for the great Bells by which the inhabitants of Edo, later called Tokyo, kept the hours in the shoguns\' city.
An elegant and absorbing tour of Tokyo and its residents From 1632 until 1854, Japan\'s rulers restricted contact with foreign countries, a near isolation that fostered a remarkable and unique culture that endures to this day