September 3, 2009
When I was walking along the road by Shirakawa river in Kyoto many years ago I found this monument, which was inscribed with a tanka (poem) by Kitaro Nishida, a philosopher. He was a professor at Kyoto University. He made it a rule to walk around here.  His favorite road is now called ‘phiosopher’s walk’ (tetsugaku no michi) . The poem reads, 人は人吾は吾なりとにかくに吾行く道を吾は行くなり Others are others. I am I. Anyway I will go on my own way.

When I was walking along the road by Shirakawa river in Kyoto many years ago I found this monument, which was inscribed with a tanka (poem) by Kitaro Nishida, a philosopher. He was a professor at Kyoto University. He made it a rule to walk around here.  His favorite road is now called ‘phiosopher’s walk’ (tetsugaku no michi) . The poem reads,

人は人吾は吾なりとにかくに吾行く道を吾は行くなり

Others are others. I am I. Anyway I will go on my own way.

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