They want to revive an awareness of what the Algonquin Indians, intimate with its power, called michi-sipi, the Big Water.

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The pedestrian path Tetsugaku-no-Michi, named after 20th-century philosopher Nishida Kataro, stretches for three kilometres alongside a canal in eastern Kyoto and connects Ginkakuji temple to Nanzen-ji temple.

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