Jodo Mission of Hawaii

Bulletin - SEPTEMBER 2015

Jodo Mission of Hawaii 1429 Makiki St.

Honolulu HI 96814

Address Service Requested

(#1226-0915)

Bazaar Collection

Jodo Mission of Hawaii’s Bazaar will be held on Sunday, October 18. If you

have any donations, please bring them to the Temple! Please separate your donations

by categories (clothing, kitchen utensils and dishes, toys,

trinkets, books) and please mark the categories. Jodo Mission

will not pick up your donations. Thank you for your under-

standing.

Please note that what you

may call “junk” may be an-

other person’s “pot of gold”.

If you have a lot of fruits and vegetables that you would like to share, please bring them to the temple on

Saturday, October 17

Also please bring your plants that you want to do-

nate to the temple on Saturday, October 17

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September 13—Keiro Kai and Grandparents’ Day

The Intermediate YBA and Sunday

School will honor our Keiro mem-

bers (all those 80 years old and older) on Sunday, September 13,

at 10 a.m. Please join us if you

are able to come.

Also, younger generation, please

bring your parents, grandparents,

aunties, uncles who are 80 years

and older to join this event! It will

be a special treat for them!

What I’ve Felt These Past Three Months by Koichiro Narita

I am Koichiro Narita from Japan. I worked at Jodo Mission of Hawaii

as a volunteer from May to August 2015. In these three months, I had so

many great experiences at Jodo Mission of Hawaii. I would like to share

two things that left a strong impression in my mind.

First, my one biggest project at this temple was preparing for Obon service with Jodo

Mission’s minister Yubun Narashiba. There are three things to do for Obon preparation. First,

we need to shave old toba and make it clean. Second, we set the base for toba. And then, we set

toba on the base. Everything is really new for me. I didn’t know what a minister needs to do to

prepare for Obon even though I had spent most of my lifetime in one of biggest Buddhist coun-

try Japan. The number of toba was approximately 500. So it was tough work but also fun work.

Because Narashiba sensei taught me various things as well as work in preparing for Obon ser-

vice, this experience really inspired me and I would like to keep it in my mind as a rewarding

experience in Hawaii.

Second thing is the relationship between Hawaiian people and Buddhism. One

day, I went to a public funeral with Narashiba sensei. The funeral was Buddhist

style but there are differences compared to a Japanese one. The deceased was in the

army, so there was an army ritual in middle of the funeral. I’ve never experienced

those things. I felt the style affected by culture. That was interesting for me.

I have spent great time at Jodo Mission of Hawaii and I will remember all which

I experienced here.

BON DANCE (August 14-15, 2015)

THANK YOU, THANK YOU to everyone who participated in our Bon Dance

held on August 14-15, 2015. There were so many, many people helping behind the scenes

and we really appreciate all your hard work. It is with everyone’s help that we can continue

to do this event. Without someone arranging with the bon dancers, getting the yagura up,

arranging for the stairway to get on top of the yagura, someone setting up chairs so people

could sit down, someone getting the omamoris, someone selling the omamoris, bon dance

towels, happi coats, kimonos, parking attendants from the Kiwanis Club, making and sell-

ing andagis (Okinawan donuts), someone making and selling the wonderful Jodo Mission

special shaved ice, someone making and selling musubis, spam musubis, someone making

and selling chichi dango, someone ordering and selling saimin, someone making and selling

grilled BBQ sticks, someone making and selling sushi, soba salad, turkey jook, noodles

someone making and selling hot dogs, chili and rice, someone making and selling waffle

dogs, hamburgers, peanut butter floats, someone washing dishes and more dishes, someone

making sure that all the trash cans were not overflowing with trash, someone answering the

many questions people called about, including “how do I get to Jodo Mission?” or “where

can I park?”

Thank you also to the many, many dancers who came and had fun dancing. Thank you to

the taiko group Dragon Beat which began each day of the Bon Dance with wonderful spirit!

Thank you to the person or persons who made the teru teru bozu for Saturday night.

Did you notice that the weather was much better on Saturday than on Friday?

We hope everyone had time to catch up with old friends, made new friends, got together

with your relatives! All our food booths sold all their food before the end of the Bon Dance.

That is great! Wasn’t the food great and the prices great! We understand that some people

were disappointed that certain food items were sold out and we apologize for that however

part of the problem is manpower so for all those people who want to help, please let us

know for next year!

Thank you to everyone who came to our Bon Dance, especially those who came on

Friday evening when it rained hard at one point. SEE YOU AGAIN NEXT YEAR!

Tell your friends what a wonderful time it was—good food, good friends, lots of danc-

ing!

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Yagura Set Up Photos: Yagura set up is not that easy. It takes a lot of manpower to

make sure each pole is secured correctly and to make sure the foundation is strong enough to

hold the singers and taiko drummers. These photos below were from 2014. This year your

photographer was busy in the kitchen and apologize for not taking photos. THANK YOU to

everyone who did come to help on August 9, 2015.

Magnet Sweeper is used to try and get as much of the nails

from the O-Toba take down as possible so no one will get hurt

dancing around the yagura. Mr. Shindo shows the magnet

sweeper is strong enough to hold a cup full of nails!

Thank You Message from Bon Dance Chairperson by Burt Lum

A BIG Mahalo to all the hands that came together to make the 2015

Jodo Mission Bon Dance such an incredible celebration of life. Everyone

who participated from the crew who setup the yagura, the food preparers,

the dancers, the taiko drummers, the BBQers, the shave ice crew, the Kiwa-

nis Club parking detail, the ono andagi, the awesome musicians, the lists goes on and

on. Watching the Bon Dance unfold was a beautiful dance of harmony. As I watched the Bon Dance throughout the night I couldn't help but think how we join together as a

community, from different ethnic backgrounds and different religious groundings to

celebrate each other, our ancestors and our ohana. The Bon Dance is a mirror of our

life.

Thank you for being a part of this wonderful experience. Let it shine through you

each and everyday. Let compassion rule and let's come together again in 2016 to cele-

brate Obon!

AUTUMN O-Higan Chutoba Form (彼岸会中塔婆申し込み用紙)

Your Name(お名前) : Phone（電話）:

Name of Deceased （亡くなった方のお名前）：

1.

2.

3.

4

One Chutoba is $7 X Total of Chutoba = Total $

（中塔婆1本7ドル） （本数） （合計）

Please make checks payable to “Jodo Mission of Hawaii”. DEADLINE: Sunday, September 13, 2015

FOR OFFICE USE ONLY

Order accepted by Date accepted / /2015 (In person/ Mail / By phone)

Received by Date paid: ________/______/2015 (Cash / Check #_____________) Write

O-HIGAN SERVICE The word “Higan” literally means “the other shore” in Japanese. One shore represents the world we are in, and the oth-er shore “Higan” represents Amida Buddha’s Pure Land. The river represents the bad mind we all possess. The concept is that we practice the teaching to reach the other shore across the river.

We have two Higan seasons in a year. One in spring, the oth-er in autumn, as Higan is held during the week of the spring and autumn equinox. Shan Tao, one of the highest ranking priests of Jodo Buddhism in China said that the sun sets due west during the equinox thus it is a good opportunity to think about Bud-dha’s Pure Land which exists far away in the west, as well as appreciate our ances-tors who are also there.

Please join us for our Higan-e service and think about Amida Buddha’s Pure Land and our ancestors. Our Higan-e Service will be held:

Sunday, September 27 at 10:00 am

Chutoba prayers will be conducted during this service. If you would like a Chuto-ba prayer for your ancestors, please fill out the form on this page and send it or drop it

off at the Jodo Mission office by Sunday, September 13th. Thank you.

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Higan Service

September 27 at 10 a.m.

____ I plan to attend service

____ I do not plan to attend

O b i t u a r i e s

The 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.

Reginald Takahiro Tengan 82

Albert Tadamasa Tanimura 80

Mitsuko Oshiro 80

Linda Natue Yanagihara 73

Olivia Hiroko Hattori unknown

Raymond Tomotsu Nakagawa 89

Thelma Tsuyuko Yasaka 84

Jodo Mission Office Hours:

Monday to Saturday 8am—5pm

Sunday & Holidays

8am—3pm

Phone: 949-3995

Website: www.jodo.us

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Rev. Yubun Narashiba Head Minister

Rev. Kanjun Nakano Resident Minister

Bishop Gensho Hara Lahaina, Maui

What is “Perpetual Memorial

Service?” (Eitaikyo)

This record of a perpetual memorial service and is called Eitaikyo in Japanese. When the date of death occurs for a person listed on this record, the ministers pray for that individual dur-ing the morning service. The prayers will contin-

ue each year for as long as Jodo Mission exists.

Anyone can be included in it. You may put your own name on the list, too. This also helps when it is difficult to have memorial services. We also welcome you to attend the morning service at 8:30am.

How to apply

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

Hello Namuchan fans were given dur-

ing the fan dance at the Bon Dance

held on August 14-15, 2015.

EITAIKYO (Perpetual Memorial Service) for September

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1. Seijiro Mitsuyasu The Mitsuyasu Family Takao Nishimura The Nishimura Family Kamado Gushikuma Mary Fujie Takimoto 2. Kiku Sugimoto The Sugimoto & Samoto Family Yutaro Karamatsu The Karamatsu Family Kiku Kusunoki The Kusunoki Family Minbunosuke Sakuda 3. Eikichi Nakamoto The Okamoto & Nakamoto Family Reverend Hoyu Ohta The Ohta Family Katsume Kuniyuki 4. Shizuko Morita Kikuno Mitsutani Nobuo Yoshida Eisuke Tamura 5. Kikuyo Iwamoto Shigeki Hayashi Yuriko Naito 6. Toramatsu Yamamoto Kamekichi Shigeoka Suteno Yoshida Masaichi Toishigawa Kichigoro Ikeda Yukimi Okada 7. Nobuo Hara 8. Suke Muranaka The Muranaka Family Higashi Tojo The Tojo Family Toshiko Judy Yanagihara 9. Mitsue Shigeoka Shunsuke Ogi The Ogi Family Shigeru Taketa Yone Wakayama Umeda Masako Koyama 10. Ritsu Inada (2) The Inada Family (2) The Morimoto Family Tsune Kuniyuki Shimo Hashimoto Sana Tamura Yukie Sakaue 11. Yorizo Yamane The Yamane Family The Harada Family Ikuzo Kuniyuki

Nobuo Tsuda Mike Shigeo Hara 12. Junji Sano The Nishimoto Family Sada Hayashi The Hayashi Family Masao Fukuzawa Tsuneyasu Tamanaha Umeyo Ohta Taeko Stella Uehara 13. Kigoro Takada The Takada Family Kumayo Nomura The Nomura Family Yoshio Kawakami Yasuichi Moritsugu The Henry Hijii Family Tatsui Oshita 14. Matsu Ohta Kikuzuchi Takaoka Toshio Mitani 15. Umeyo Nishimura The Nishimura Family Ishi Yagi The Yagi & Okada Family Takeji Ohara Masaji Kawasugi Shizue Masuda Yuji Yokoyama Ayako Nakata James Hajime Koike 16. Shigenari Uesugi 17. Okaji Hashimoto The Hashimoto Family Fujie Nomiyama Tomio Machida 18 Kinjuro Sugimoto The Sugimoto & Samoto Family Take Kitagawa The Kitagawa Family Tameo Shinntani Kamejiro Uyeda Hoichi Fujita The Fujita Family Mie Kashiwa Fumiko Yamane Nobuko Tsuruda 19. Kichijuro Miyashige The Goto & Miyashige Family Seitoku Higa The Weiss Family The Sunagawa Family Fusae Ippongi 20. Shoichi Ishida The Ishida & Aimoto Family

The Iwamoto’s Baby The Iwamoto Family Kiyoko Isobe 21, Kumanoshin Yamamoto (2) Yoshiko Nakahara (2) Wanda Akemi Hamada 22. Miyo Koyama The Koyama Family Keikichi Mishina The Mishina Family Kame Higa The Higa Family Ruth Yoshiko Medeiros Tsuchitaro Iwamoto Eleanor Haruko Nose Shigeko Machida 23. Kiyoshi Matsushita The Matsushita Family Yoshiaki Ono The Ono & Yamada Family Yoshio Uchiumi Riichi Hirouji 24. Ryuichi Hamada The Hamada Family The Sakauye Family Shieto Saiki Aya Asaumi 25. Haruyo Yanagihara Kamematsu Onohara Mitsuru Harada 26. The Nishimura’s Baby 27. Seiichi Tanaka The Tanaka & Takahashi Family Hakuyo Ebisuzaki (2) Goro Shindo 28. Kimi Morita The Morita & Ashinaka Family Natsue Hayashi The Hayashi Family 29. Kiku Tanimura The Tanimura Family Ryosuke Yanagisawa The Yanagisawa Family Ushi Shimabukuro Akio Shimabukuro The Shimabukuro Family Kiyo Yamachika The Yamachika & Matsushige Family Ishi Uyenoyama Yuu Kunihisa Yoshiwa Tarumoto Chieko Yamamura 30. Francis Kiyoshi Furutani

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