はつ冬の哲学の径一詩人 藤島咲子
hatsufuyu no tetsugaku no michi ichi shijin
beginning of winter
on Philosopher’s Road
one poet
Sakiko Fujishima
from ‘Haiku,’ a monthly haiku magazine, September 2010 Issue, Kadokawa Gakugei Shuppan, Tokyo
Fay’s Note: “tetsugaku no michi” (Philosopher’s Road) is a small street located n Kyoto. It is named after Kitaro Nishida, a Japanese philosopher, who favored there to ponder.
Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi) 
Der Philosophenweg, the original is at Heidelberg University, opposite to the castle of Heidelberg, where the “philosophers” used to take a walk … I did walk it too many times.
http://www.google.co.jp/search?tbm=isch&hl=ja&source=hp&biw=838&bih=816&q=SANJ%C5%AABANSHIN+or+SANJ%C5%AABANJIN+mark&btnG=%E7%94%BB%E5%83%8F%E6%A4%9C%E7%B4%A2&gbv=2&oq=SANJ%C5%AABANSHIN+or+SANJ%C5%AABANJIN+mark&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=2094l3328l0l4922l6l6l0l5l0l0l156l156l0.1l1l0#hl=ja&gbv=2&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=Philosophenweg+heidelberg&oq=Philosophenweg+heidelberg&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=1653734l1657672l0l1657828l25l25l0l15l1l0l282l2125l0.2.8l10l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=10f3789d2b4b6ffb&biw=838&bih=816
Hope the link shows the google photos.
Gabi
Thank you, Gabi. I did not know that!
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