Jodo Mission Bulletin - October 2011

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Jodo Mission of Hawaii1429 Makiki St.

Honolulu HI 96814

Address Service Requested

Bazaar

Bazaar will be held onSunday, October 23, 2011

(8:00am 2:00pm)

Bazaar preparation:Your help is needed on Sunday, October 16at 10:30 am to bring out all the stored Bazaar items to the Social Hall. Through-out the year people drop off items to be sold at the Annual Bazaar and theseitems are stored. Now we need to take out these stored items. Lunch will be pro-vided.

Also, during the week from Monday, October 17 to Saturday, October 22, beginninat 9:00 a.m. each day, help is needed to sort, organize and price the many donateditems in preparation of the Bazaar.

Donationsof useable clothing, household items, plants, baked goods, craft items,etc. are welcomed and greatly appreciated. Please feel free to drop non-perishableitems off anytime during our office hours:

Monday to Saturday: 8 am5 pm Sunday & holidays: 8 am3 pm

No furniture or bulky items will be accepted. All items must be dropped-off at the Temple.

JODO MISSION OF HAWAIIBULLETIN - OCTOBER 2011

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The 800th

Grand Memorial Service

of Our Founder Honen Shonin

On Sunday, September 18, 2011, the Hawaii Council

of Jodo Missions held the 800th Grand Memorial Service

in honor of our founder Honen Shonin.

The 800th Grand Memorial Service was conducted

by Grand Officiant Bishop Gensho Hara and

Co-Officiated by Rev. Yubun Narashiba and Rev. Wajira

Wansa. Other ministers who participated were Rev.

Kosen Ishikawa, Rev. Shoryu Akiya, Rev. Junshin Miya-

zaki, Rev. John Hara, Rev. Kanjun Nakano, Rev. Yasu-

hiro Watanabe, Rev. Ryokan Nakamura (Retired). Also

attending was Rev. Shinri Maya Hara.

All ministers participating were from 13 Jodo Shutemples in Hawaii. To see all ministers at the altar is a

magnificent sight to see.

This was such a memorable event! It was so

beautiful to watch as Rev. John Hara led the proces-

sion of Bishop Gensho Hara, Rev. Yubun Narashiba

and Rev. Wajira Wansa all dressed in their very for-

mal attire and standing in front of the Amida Bud-

dha and Honen Shonin.

Before the chanting began, everyone sang

Shuka Tsukikage, Jodo Shu song which is a poem

written by Honen Shonin:

Tsu ki ka ge no, i ta ra nu sa to wana ke re do mo, na ga mu ru hi to no

ko ko ro ni zo__ su___ mu.

Though the moon so bright

whitens worlds ex panse, on-lyThey who earnest gaze,

Touched throughout, within,

Are em-braced by ser-e-ni-ty.

Another English version of Shuka

Tsukikage was performed by the

Malama Childrens choir as the trans-lated version was little difficult for

children.

Beau-ti-ful bright moonIs al-ways shi-ning peo-ple

All ov-er the world

When I look up at the moon

The li-ght shines m-y hear-t.

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Musical Tribute to Honen Shonin:

Koto instructorMr. Darin Miyashiroperformed his version of Shuka Tsukikage onthe koto. After, he played his koto for the Malama Childrens Choirs new English version

of Shuka Tsukikage.

Memorial Lecture: In Gratitude to Honen Shonin: Introducing Genchi

Shonins Standing Amida Buddha

Rev. Shinri Maya Hara presented a very interesting lecture on In Gratitude to HonenShonin: Introducing Genchi Shonin's Standing Amida Buddha. The image that she focused

on was Amida Buddha from a recent exhibition at the Kyoto National Museum in honor of

St. Honen. The image was commissioned by one of Honens disciples, Genchi Shonin.

Within the image several documents were found including a registry of 46,000 signatures of

devotees of Honens Nembutsu teaching (during this period sometimes valuable documents

were hidden inside images protecting the documents from any destructive persons). This

image was made to honor and show gratitude for Honen on the 1 year anniversary of his

passing.

Before Honens passing, Genchi had requested from his teacher a final testament whichwe now know as theIchimai Kishomon or One Sheet Document in which Honen empha-

sized to simply recite the Nembutsu [NAMU AMIDA BUTSU]. Rev. Shinri empha-

sized the importance of this document and how it is relevant in our present day and that the

practice is both universal and inclusive of everyone. As Genchi Shonin was, we are grateful

for the simplicity and compassion of Honens teaching.

Luncheon in appreciation to St. Honen was held at the end of this beautiful day ofreligious ceremony and musical celebration for the 800th Grand Memorial Service

Group photo of those who attended the 800th Grand Memorial Service for our Founder Honen Shonin on September 18, 2011at Betsuin.

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THANK YOU and MAHALO

TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED IN KYOKU

CONVENTION HELD SEPTEMBER 16-18, 2011

Kyoku or Hawaii Council of Jodo Missions, also known as HCJM, held its 38th Bien-

nial Convention in Honolulu at Betsuin during September16, 17, and 18, 2011. Conventionmeeting was conducted by its President Mark Nakamura of Hilo Meishoin. The Hawaii

Council of Jodo Missions governs all 13 Jodo Missions in the State of Hawaii. Represen-

tatives of all 13 Jodo Missions were invited including all ministers of all 13 Jodo Missions.

Bishop Gensho Hara was reelected for another two-year term as Bishop for the Hawaii

Council of Jodo Missions. Bishop Hara expressed his sincere appreciation for all the dona-

tions collected for the Japan disasters and sent to Japan for Jodo Shu temples. Bishop is

also the link to Japan headquarters Chionin. He attends various conferences in Japan as

well as here in the State of Hawaii. Ministers assignments are made by the Bishop. He

attends various Centennial celebrations, i.e. Hawi Jodo Mission in October 2009, KahuluiJodo Mission in November 2009, Hilo Meishoin in June 2010, Koloa Jodo Mission in Feb-

ruary 2011 and other ceremonial events as well as conducts services at his own temple in

Lahaina.

Mark Nakamura was re-elected for the fourth time as President of the Hawaii Council

of Jodo Missions. Mark communicates well with members as well as ministers of our Jodo

Missions. He and Bishop Hara traveled to many of the Jodo Missions representing the Ha-

waii Council of Jodo Missions, i.e. the Welcome/Aloha Banquet for the 450 Japan Yoshi-

mizuko Group. Mark also attends various functions on the Big Island like the recent Joint

Ohigan Service held at Hilo Meishoin Temple and included Hilo Meishoin, Kuristown and

Hakalau, etc.

Other officers of the HCJM who also were re-elected were: 1st Vice President Leo-

nard Chow of Hilo, 2nd Vice President Ian Kitajima of Honolulu, Secretary Robert Miyake

of Hilo, Assistant Secretary Masue Ando of Hilo, Treasurer Akiko Nishiyama of Honolulu,

Assistant Treasurer David Miyamoto of Honolulu, Auditor Clifton Hayashi of Kapaa and

Auditor Walter Yoshida of Wailuku.

Bishop Hara announced the following Sanmu appointments: OahuRev. Yubun

Narashiba, HawaiiRev. Wajira Wansa, MauiRev. John Hara, KauaiRev. Kosen

Ishikawa.

Installation of Officers was conducted by Bishop Gensho Hara on September 17, 2011.

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THANK YOU and MAHALO TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED IN KYOKU

CONVENTION HELD 9/16 TO 9/18/11 (contd)

Kyoku Convention: It takes a lot of planning, coordination, manpower, attendees, goodprogram, fellowship for a Convention of any kind to be successful. Bishop Hara and

Kyoku President Mark Nakamura both congratulated the Co-Chairs for this event, Akiko

Nishiyama and David Miyamoto for their time and outstanding effort in putting this

HCJM 38th Biennial Convention together. It also takes a lot of volunteers.Jodo Shu ministers and members from the Big Island, Maui and Kauai came to

Honolulu for this Convention. Haleiwa members Kenneth Masatsugu, Marianne Ono,

Glenn Matsumoto helped out by coming early in the morning around 6:00 a.m. or earlier

to help with breakfast. Kenneth makes wonderful scrambled eggs and Glenn makes great

coffee in the huge coffee urns. Aki Nishiyama, Doris and Teruto Soma, Yukari Narashiba,

Kay and Masa Oshiro, Marsha Oshiro, Herbert Fujikawa, Peggy and Clifford Miyamoto,

and Sally Hayashi were also helping in the kitchen throughout the Convention.

Kenneth and Glenn would watch the time and when it was time to go pickup outside

island people from the hotel, they would leave. Other drivers shuttling people from/to the

hotel included Clifford Miyamoto, Donald Koga and JoAnn Matsuo. Some outside island

people rented cars so they also carpooled. Later in the day there were more drivers: Ian

Kitajima, Teruto Soma and Jon Karamatsu also helped shuttling.

After breakfast, the meeting would begin.

Food was

ONO! But

sometimes,

too many

choices to

make can be

difficult!

Jan Nakamura of Hamakua gave a pres-entation on Future of our Smaller Tem-

ples.

Above, Aki Nishiyama, Masue Ando, MarkNakamura listen as Bishop Hara speaks.

Reports given by

Marianne Ono

(above) and IanKitajima (below)

Marianne Ono

and Teruto

Soma grillingchicken over the

hibachi. Photois a little hazy as

there was a lotof smoke!

Ladies in thekitchen

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11201110

Vol. 11 O-Jizo-sama and Children (Oct. 2011)

The Jizo Bon ceremony is the finale of the Bon season. In Kyoto, Jizo Bon is wellknown as the festival for children. People display lanterns (chochin) to wish for childrenshealth and happiness. Why is Jizo Bon for children?

O-Jizo-sama is distinct from other Buddhist saints. Many stone Jizo statues wear ared baby cap and bib, offered by members, because they believe Jizo helps deceased chil-dren go to the Pure Land. Jizo is known as the guardian of children because people believethe following story: When a person has no relation to Buddhas teaching and dies suddenly,

he/she will not be saved and will go to hell. Among them, a babys life is too short to dogood deeds as a Buddhist. When babies pass away, they remain in an intermediate statebecause evil ogres interfere with their progress to a final destiny. That is why people believethat deceased children cannot move on to the better condition of Perfect Peace. Here Jizoappears before suffering children and protects them from the ogres. Then Jizo leads thechildren to the Pure Land.

Childrens mortality rates used to be high, and it was common to lose children. Jizois believed to be the last resort to save children. The great compassion of Jizo comforts

Bits of Knowledge of BuddhismVol. 11 O-Jizo-sama and children (Oct. 2011)

By Rev. Yasushiro Watanabe

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Bits of Knowledg of Buddhism (Contd)

parents deep grief and people have true faith in Jizo. He can help and save the unfortu-nate people who may have fallen into hell, or the worst destiny. Thus, Jizo has been wor-shiped by people who have lost their loved ones. In Japan, many, many O-Jizo-sama

statues have been built as guardian deities at the temples and at the boundaries of thetowns. People offer items such as caps, bibs, flowers and even toys. I would like to thankJodo-shu staff for sending this picture of O-Jizo-sama to share with you. It was taken atZojoji Temple in Tokyo.

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Announcements

Fujinkai Meeting(Womens Association)

10/2 8:30 am

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YBA Meeting

10/30 8:30 am

Jodo Mission of Hawaii

Childrens Choir Malama

October 30: at 10:45 a.m.

Sewing CircleOctober 8

8:3011:00 a.m.

Any interested person is

welcome to participate

Sunday School

We welcome children to join our

Sunday School. Lets enjoy studying

Onembetsu by doing various activities.

October 30 at 11:30 a.m.

SUNDAY SCHOOL/MALAMA CHILDRENS CHOIR AND KEIRO KAI

Our Sunday School and Malama Childrens Choir honored our Keiro members (all those 80 years

and older) with two Special Songs 1) Kisha Poppo and 2) Kutsu ga naru, led by Rev. Nakano.

Kyodan President Jon Riki Karamatsu and Sophie Narashiba presented each Keiro member with a

container of Sekihan prepared by Fujinkai ladies. Yoshiko Kitagawa (92) and Gene Ikeda (89)were the oldest members present on that day.


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Malama Childrens Choir get ready to perform.

Malama Childrens Choir: Raistlih,

Strider, Himawari, Taylor, Takeru,

AMarie and Sophie performed twosongs for all the Keiro: Kisha Poppo

and Kutsu ga naru which everyone

enjoyed. So precious!!

Mrs. Yanagihara happily accepts herSekihan from Jon Karamatsu while

Rev. Narashiba happily looks on as the

Keiro members are honored.

The Junior and Intermediate YBA as well as Sunday School

honored the Keiro members with a delicious Hawaiian luncheon

of laulau, poi, lomi salmon, pineapple, shoyu chicken, etc.

THANK YOU FOR A WONDERFUL LUNCH!

Sunday School students passed out cookies

wrapped in beautiful Hawaiian material.

Above, more happy Keiro honorees.

Mrs. Nishiyama and Mrs. Kitagawa lookingat more Keiro being honored.

Above, the two Goeka

ladies, Mrs. Kitagawa and

Mrs. Hisamoto happilyaccepted the Sekihan con-

tainers (mochi rice with

azuki beans or Happy Rice)

as Keiro honorees!

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ObituariesThe Jodo Mission of Hawaii extends its sin-

cere condolences to the family members and

loved ones of the following members who have

recently left this world for the Pure Land.

Satsuki Sats Nishimura 77

Namiko Teraoka 92

Nobuo Hara 99

Haruo Teruya 76

Yone Okubo 89

Helen Kimi Nakano 91

Jodo Mission Office Hours:Monday to Saturday

8am5pm

Sunday & Holidays8am3pm

Phone: 949-3995

Rev. Yubun NarashibaHead Minister

Rev. Kanjun NakanoResident Minister

Rev. Dwight

NakamuraRetired MinisterPage 10

Rev. Yasuhiro

WatanabeResident Minister

What is Perpetual MemorialService? (Eitaikyo)

This record of a perpetual memorial ser-vice and is called Eitaikyo in Japanese.When the date of death occurs for a personlisted on this record, the ministers pray for

that individual during the morning service.The prayers will continue each year for aslong as Jodo Mission exists.

Anyone can be included in it. You may putyour own name on the list, too. This alsohelps when it is difficult to have memorialservices. We also welcome you to attend themorning service at 8:30am.

How to apply

Stop by the office, and fill out the applica-tion form. Each name costs $200. After theapplication is accepted, the name will belisted on the record.

Another photo from the 800th Grand Memorial Service for Honen

Shonin held on September 18, 2011.


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EITAIKYO (Perpetual Memorial Service) for October1 Yuriko Hirono

2 Takeo TaniguchiYasumoto KawaharaThe Kawahara FamilyYoshimi OharaTsukie IwamotoAkira HashimotoTaniguchi Family

Katsuko TsujiShuichi Yamamura

3 Tome YanagiharaThe Yanagihara FamilyMasa UedaBishop Bino MamiyaTanezo FujimotoKana Kimura

4 Tsune MatsumoriThe Matsumori FamilySenichi Iwaki

The Iwaki FamilyRobert Yanagihara

5 Toshiro AshinakaThe Morita & Ashinaka FamilyDaughter of K. NakamuraRinji InouyeHideo Imamoto

6 Masu TanimuraThe Tanimura FamilyKazuhiro Kawabuchi

7 Itsue HirohamaThe Hirohama & Kawasugi FamilyWakamaru MasakiMamu Teraoka

8 Junichi NanbaThe Nanba FamilySato MorikawaThe Morikawa FamilyYonesuke YonemotoThe Yonemoto FamilySetsuko TanakaThe Tanaka FamilyNobue Noyama

Gunichi WakazuruMamoru Furuya

9 Shinzo Kawamoto

10 Asa IsobeThe Isobe FamilyKiso FujimotoTakeo IshidaShizuku HashimotoHenry Yoshiichi Uyehara

11 Shizuo FujikamiThe Fujikami FamilyShizuyo KimuraThe Kimura FamilyTakeo NakataAyako Nakamura

12 Mitsuo HisamuraAoki Family

13 Ishimotos ChildThe Ishimoto & Akimoto FamilyYoshiko ImaguchiThe Imaguchi FamilySeizo HayashiMasanobu Asai

14 Yukichi SakudaThe Sakuda FamilyTsunejiro ImaguchiThe Imaguchi FamilyShotaro Ueda

The Ueda FamilyKokichi OkimuraThe Okimura FamilyMasato KamisatoTsune NomiyamaTeruko SumimotoShimo HiroujiEdward Shoichi MatsumotoHarue Nakagawa

15 Arata Nishimoto (2)The Nishimoto FamilyFukashi YamamotoKiku YanagiharaMasumi Yano

16 Ichijiro AokiThe Aoki & Okubo FamilyIwakichi MatsumoriThe Matsumori FamilyNobuichi NobujiYoshio TsudaKazue Uyehara

17 Tome NagataMarsha Yoshioka

18 Takeichi ShintakuTokuichi IwasakiMasaru HashimotoMarla M. HoriuchiTomoaki ItoSumi Akashi

19 Harriet Hatsuko Umeda

20 Masaichi IshizakiMino KamisatoShuichi Yamamura

Iso Ikuta

21 Aiko OkamotoThe Okamoto & Nakamoto FamilShizuyo Fukada

22 Kei SawamuraKiyomi Fujimoto

23 Shigezaburo KanayamaThe Kanayama FamilyNoboru KuriyamaThe Kuriyama FamilyKosai NakamuraShozaemon YoshidaKiyoto HoriuchiEleanor Sato

24 Yoshiichi YamadaThe Yamada FamilyKitaro YamatoThe Yamato Family

Miru Umemoto

25 Mamoru FukudaThe Fykuda FamilyAsataro YamamotoThe Yamamoto FamilyHatsuji YamamotoKomao HaradaMasa Ikuta Yamada

26 Kikuji OkadaYaichi MaruichTaro TairaKiyoko Aoki

27 Fumio YanagiharaThe Yanagihara FamilyNobuo AmakawaMamoru HayashiTake KimuraToichi ToyofukuMasa Furukawa

28 Hideo Inouye

29 Takayuki KameokaThe Kameoka Family

Take HinotsumeHaruyo Hashimoto

30 Fuji YamadaThe Yamada FamilySue MatsuoThe Matsuo FamilyChiyoko Ogata

31 Rikizo FukudaThe Fukuda FamilyTora Okawa


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