Tokyo. The bells of the old city. Sherman A.

From 1632 to 1854, Japanese rulers pursued a policy of isolation of Japan, which contributed to the creation of a unique culture, the "islands" of which are preserved to this day. A passionate lover of Japan Anna Sherman makes a trip along the old streets of Tokyo, who was lost among modern reinforced concrete structures. In her hypnotic, sensual prose, she describes the search for great bells of time, with the help of which the inhabitants of EDO, later called Tokyo, measured the time in the city of shogunov. In conversations with the local population, Anna recreates an almost forgotten oral history of old Japan, which has not yet undergone Western modernization, war and nuclear bombing.