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The Bells of Old Tokyo: Meditations on Time and a City History of Technology Rico en revelacionesAn elegant and absorbing tour of Tokyo and its residents From 1632 until 1854, Japans rulers restricted contact with foreign countries, a near isolation that fostered a remarkable and unique culture that endures to this day. 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 exploration of Tokyo becomes a meditation not