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The Bells of Old Tokyo
The Bells of Old Tokyo: Travels in Japanese Time | Anna Sherman
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'The best book I have read about Tokyo written this century' David Peace For over 300 years, Japan closed itself to outsiders, developing a remarkable and unique culture. During its period of isolation, the inhabitants of the city of Edo, later known as Tokyo, relied on its public bells to tell the time. In her remarkable book, Anna Sherman tells of her search for the bells of Edo, exploring the city of Tokyo and its inhabitants and the individual and particular relationship of Japanese culture - and the Japanese language - to time, tradition, memory, impermanence and history. Through Shermans journeys around the city and her friendship with the owner of a small, exquisite cafe, who elevates the making and drinking of coffee to an art-form, The Bells of Old Tokyo presents a series of hauntingly memorable voices in the labyrinth that is the metropolis of the Japanese capital: An aristocrat plays in the sea of ashes left by the Allied firebombing of 1945. A scientist builds the most accurate clock in the world, a clock that will not lose a second in five billion years. A sculptor eats his fathers ashes while the head of the house of Tokugawa reflects on the destruction of his grandfathers city (A lost thing is lost. To chase it leads to darkness). The result is a book that not only engages with the striking otherness of Japanese culture like no other, but that also marks the arrival of a dazzling new writer as she presents an absorbing and alluring meditation on life through an exploration of a great city and its people.
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#SchoolSpirit #Day2 #Bell
I found a perfect fit!Lyrical account of Tokyo through the city's old bells. @eggs @alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 👍🏻 1mo
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This book took me forever to read, don't get me wrong it's a great book but what a slog... I love the history about Tokyo and learning all the modern day changes even down to the description of coffee! But when I was reading it I loved it but when I put it down I never thought of it, it didn't leave anything with me! #readingthelibrary #librarybooks #history #tokyo #worldreader

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Hello everybody it has been a hectic few week's with moving and getting settled in my new job and on top of all that starting university as you can imagine I haven't done much reading unless it's about Law 🤦

I hope the land of Litsy is all safe and well ❤️😘 attempting to read the tagged book.

ju.ca.no Sounds super busy! Have things settled down a bit by now? 5y
Bklover Sounds exciting! 5y
kaysworld1 @ju.ca.no Yer a little. I have 13 days off starting next week so im going to get loads of studying in and some new furniture. 5y
ju.ca.no @kaysworld1 that is good:) 5y
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