Around 1900, twenty-three-year-old Sanshir leaves the provinces to study in Tokyo, where he encounters a world that is utterly foreign to him: frenetic, noncommittal, and thrilling all at once. Having grown up within a close-knit, tradition-minded family, Sanshir comes into contact with revolutionary ideas that both fascinate him and overturn his entire worldview — as well as with women. But alongside modern individualism and his newly won freedom, Sanshir feels loneliness for the first time in ...
