Hanfeng had not told her that he was no longer playing, even though a rented piano had always been the first piece of furniture to fill an empty apartment in each city he had moved to.
In the summer of 1724, two groups of villages from the Yamazaki and Takatsuki areas fought over the rights to collect night soil from various parts of the city.
First comes the family, then an association of families in a tribe, then a further association in a village, and then you might say an association of villages that create a polis or a city.
Thus far the evacuations have been of villages, but eventually whole cities might have to be relocated, such as Sana, the capital of Yemen, or Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's Baluchistan Province.
The private construction of a whole new city, Lavasa, has been halted over the brazen flouting of planning rules, presumably with the connivance of politicians.
I wish I had better peripheral vision as cars, trams, bikes and pedestrians seem to float by from all directions in silence -- their sounds lost in the white noise of this uniquely lively city.