Tokyo. The bells of the old city

The enchanting memoirs, in which the author’s narrative and the mythical history of the old quarters of Tokyo were weaved. - Kirkus Review

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, lost among modern reinforced concrete structures.
Canals and bridges, temples and hotels of love, a space torn between the atlases of the City of Light and the City of Darkness. The carefully collected fragments of the ancient worldview of the Japanese in conversations with monks, artists, and writers. Meetings with an aristocrat-tradealist-the owner of the coffee shop, and the pragmatist-progressist-the head of the shogun house Tokugawa. Ancient Japanese bells of time, the search for which Anna is obsessed, is the starting points of travel to the past of the country. 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