Jodo Mission of Hawaii

Bulletin - NOVEMBER 2016

(#1240-1116

Jodo Mission of Hawaii 1429 Makiki St.

Honolulu HI 96814

Address Service Requested

SECURITY PURPOSES Sometime ago we mentioned that for security purposes, the front door of Jodo Mission of Hawaii is locked. We have had many instances of intruders coming to the office and the temple and because of this we must continue this practice. Please ring the doorbell and someone will be more than happy to unlock the door. We apologize for this inconvenience. Al-so, there may be instances when no one is available, i.e. minister is at a service; a sign is normally at the front door when he will return.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

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Jodo Mission Is Looking forVolunteers for Tuesdays and Wednesdays

Jodo Mission is looking for volunteers or a volunteer to help answer the telephone, take messages, take reservations for memorial services, allow someone to enter the nokotsudo or columbarium, etc. on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. This is a

good opportunity to learn about Jodo Mission and its many activities. If you are interested, please contact Rev. Narashiba at 949-3995.

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The Japanese By Rev. Kanjun Nakano

In Japan there are many temples, shrines and churches. But, today, many Japanese do not join a specific religious group. Why ? There is a reason.

75 years ago, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor by the false reli-

gious spirit and Japan was defeated in World WarⅡ. As a re-sult, the Japanese lost many things. After that, the Japanese soci-ety changed extensively. The Japanese abolished religion from their politics and public education. Since then people have begun to lose the connection to religious groups.

Actually, before, all of the Japanese were Buddhists.

During Edo (Tokugawa) period (1603-1868), every member of every family became Buddhist. Christianity was prohibited by the then authorities. Because their teaching was that the faith was stronger than the royal power. The authorities required all Japanese to register as a member of a Buddhist temple. The authorities also made use of a temple as a city hall. If people did not do so, they could not register marriages or get an official pass for travel-ing. They would also be suspected of believing in Christianity. Every family member went to a nearest temple and registered as a member. Then Japanese people’s sects were decided by the family. And many families have inherited it now.

However, most Japanese today may not know which sect they belong to and it does not matter to them. Well, Japanese know that God, Buddha and other spirits have powers to humans. So, for example, they pray to Shinto-God for health, Buddhas for ancestors and Christian-God for marriage.

Most Japanese do not have a belief to a particular sect. But, simply, they visit shrines, temples and churches to ask for help, profit and protection. Now, this is the way most Japanese pray.

Jodo-E or Bodhi Day Celebration

Please save December 4, 2016 for Hawaii Buddhist Council’s Jodo-E ser-vice at Jodo Mission of Hawaii at 9:30 a.m. This is the celebration when Buddha attained enlightenment. Further information will come in Decem-ber Bulletin.

B A Z A A R THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO CAME TO THE BAZAAR on Sunday, October 16, 2016. The Bazaar doors opened at 8:00 a.m. but for some reason, some people like coming early and the earliest person stood in line at 5:00 a.m. The weather was great on the day of the bazaar .

THANK YOU for coming and hope you found some wonderful things! For all those who came to help, we cannot thank you enough. Also THANK YOU to all who came to help on Sunday, October 9, 2016 for Bazaar preparation and taking all the stored things out. THANK YOU TO the members, family and friends who came all week from October 10 to October 15 to sort and price items. THANK YOU so much for your time! Thank you also for the Kiwanis Club for assisting with parking on Bazaar Day. There were people who left things to be sold just outside the closed social hall doors for the Bazaar.!

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The Bazaar day was a beautiful sunny day!

Arigato for all your donations throughout the year! Things that one person does not need is another person’s treasure! See you again next year!

Rev. Narashiba gives the Bazaar blessing before the door is open

Anxious shoppers: Photo at left was taken at 6:30 a.m. be-fore the door to the social hall was open.

Karamatsu family: Richard Karamatsu (with hat bending over) is the plant person and Jon assisting him with the plant sales. There were all kinds of plants, fruit trees, anthurium plants, tea leaf plants, and also a lot of donated clay pots.

Aove photo: Shoppers everywhere. Good buys! Craft items, dishes, hand-bags, suitcases, DVDs, etc. Right photo: Shopper who found lots of goodies: cereal mix, cookies—oatmeal cookies, chocolate chip cookies, little cakes, spam musubi, sekihan.

More Bazaar Photos:

Lots of toys, jewelry, dolls and trinkets for sale.

Lots of people looking for good buys. Also Ian Kitajima had a chance to chat with Yoshiko Kitagawa. Below left: Shoppers every where! Below right: After all the shoppers are gone, all the tables are put away and floors swept and cleaned—can you imagine all those things on the left were gone!

Thank you again for all your donations, volunteered hours and all the many shoppers who came. See you again next year!

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MOCHI (Dec. 27) ORDER FORM おもち注文表 Deadline for order is Sunday, December 4, 2016

注文締め切り１２月４日

FOR OFFICE USE ONLY

Order accepted by: _______________ Date accepted: _____/_____/_2016 (In person/ Mail / Phone)

Received by: _______________ Date paid: _____/_____/_2016 (Cash / Check# )

PLEASE PRINT NAME 名前 HOME PHONE NO. 電話番号

OKASANE おかさね

$4.25/SET

KOMOCHI こもち

$3.75/POUND

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MOCHI

With the New Year just around the corner it is once again time to order our delec-table mochi. This year, we will be selling Okasane and Komochi. Please fill out the mochi order form above. The deadline to submit your mochi order form is Sunday, December 4th.

Mochi is to be picked up on: Tuesday, December 27, 2016

From 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm And to those who would like to learn and make mochi with us, we will be making mochi on Tuesday, December 27th from 7:00 am. This is a fun and memorable experience for all, especially families (a family who makes mochi together sticks together). Please come and join us. We look forward to seeing you.

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Obituaries

Jodo Mission of Hawaii extends its sincere

condolences to the family members and loved

ones of the following members who have re-

cently left this world for the Pure Land.

Suzuko Ono 95

Jodo Mission Office Hours:

Monday to Saturday: 8am—5pm

Sunday & Holidays: 8am—3pm

Phone: 949-3995

Website: www.jodo.us

Rev. Yubun Narashiba Head Minister

Rev. Kanjun Nakano Resident Minister

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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 minis-ters pray for that individual during the morning ser-vice. The prayers will continue 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 9:30 am.

How to apply: Stop by the office, and fill out the application form. Each name costs $200. After the application is accepted, the name will be listed on the record.

2017 Jodo Shu Calendar

Live the Jodo Shu style each and every day, sharing in the love and compassion of Amida Buddha year round with the messages of distin-guished priests. Calen-dar is for January through December 2017. Free calendar is available. Please order your calendar now be-

fore we run out. Please call Jodo Mission of Hawaii at 949-3995 by November 13.

O-Juya Service Will be held on Sunday,

November 13 at 10:00 a.m.

“Doing good deeds (reciting Namu Amida Butsu) here and now exceeds a thousand years of good deeds in the land of all the Buddhas.”

At Jodo Mission, it is customary for us to offer sweet treats to Amida Buddha. Please do not forget your sweet treats to share with eve-ryone. (But not leftovers from Halloween.)

Please join us for our O-Juya Service on Sunday, November 13, at 10 a.m.

Bishop Gensho Hara Lahaina, Maui

1 Gensaku Nakagawa The Nakagawa Family Hidetsugu Kanai Sadao Hedani Masao Taketa Tadao Murashige 2 Koichi Yoshiumi The Yoshiumi Family Koichi Nakamura Jiro Masuda Kenjiro Ishii Tari Sato Miyakawa Family 3 Fuji Yoshisaki The Yoshisaki Family Tsurue Hayase Fumiaki Tamura Riley Tetsumi Mende 4 Kiichi Saiki Kanji Kimoto Emi Taira Shigenobu Tamashiro 5 Kanichi Iwamoto The Iwamoto Family Matsutaro Tanimura The Tanimura Family Yuriko Sano Yasuichi Hamasaki Katajiro Yamamoto Yuki Miyagawa 6 Kinroku Morita The Morita Family Jihei Shimokawa The Shimokawa Family Tokizo Fujita Tomi Tominaga Jihei Shimokawa Bert Takeshi Higa 7 Taeko Mizuno Mizuno & Ota Family Tadahito Sakuda The Sakuda Family Shoichi Hisamura Kimiko Nobuji Hatsue Gonhata Aki Ikeda Kenji Sano Hatsuhei Horiuchi 8 Machida's Baby Masao Uno The Uno Family Bansuke Tomai The Tomai Family Tsutomu Hanano Kazuo Gonhata

Kazo Kubota 9 Iwao Iwamoto The Iwamoto Family Natsu Kanemoto The Kanemoto & Miyamoto Family Otome Sugiyama (2) Yoshio Kanehira Mildred Asako Tsuda 10 Yoshisuke Miyakawa The Miyakawa Family Shinayo Kano The Kano & Watabe Family Rev. Myoshun Hayashi The Hayashi Family Shuichi Ota Clarence Katsuji Morimoto Ronald Tatsushi Nakamoto 11 Tsuru Teramoto The Teramoto Family Tamotsu Sugiyama (2) Soyo Nishida Yonoichi Kitagawa Herbert H. Kano Hisayo Okawa 12 Tomohei Tejima The Tejima Family Sueji Yano 13 Matsujiro Tsurusaki The Tsurusaki & Inada Family Lucy Hisako Yoshimoto 14 Shiro Fukunaga (2) Alice Chieko Masatsugu Kingsley K. Luke 15 Gentaro Arita The Arita Family Toyomi Moritsugu Kana Teruya Enosuke Kawasugi Rosalie Katsuko Nishimura Toyoichi Yamada 16 Tora Otani The Otani & Yanagihara Family Shosaku Yagi The Yagi & Okada Family Kazuo Hayashi The Hayashi Family Koichi Ono

The Ono & Yamada Family Mitsuko Yanagihara Fumi Miyamoto

18 Jinkichi Tanaka The Tanaka & Noda Family Kimie Hashimoto

19 Onsho Chinen The Chinen Family Saku Fukuda The Fukuda Family Mamu Iwasaki Yaeko Uesugi Kaname Tanimura 20 Naka Iwamoto The Iwamoto Family Totaro Nomiyama Toyo Terada Yoshi Yamanaka Taru Namihira 21 Bishop Kyokujo Kubokawa 22 Wasa Hamada The Hamada Family Shina Karamatsu The Karamatsu Family Minnosuke Ebisugawa Mamoru Tatei Fusae Oshita Paul Shigeyuki Sakuda 23 Matsue Inoue The Inoue Family Sano Matsumoto Yutaka Matsumoto Yoshiichi Takemoto Kinji Yamamoto Takami Aoki Kameyo Ohnaga (2) 24 Tatsuo Tsuda Yonezo Kitagawa 25 Tadao Nakamura Matsuyo Yamamoto Tsutomu Kuniyuki Eleanor Masako Tanaka

26 Asako Yamamoto Kieko "Kay" Fuse Miyoko Matsumura Noboru Tarumoto

27 Chisaburo Azuma The Azuma Family Jane Hatsuko Higa Hisako Kurakake (2)

28 Tameno Fujimoto The Fujimoto Family Hatsuo Murao Tomoichi Kunimura

29 Junichi Oki Heizo Furukawa Walter Kazuo Nagasako 30 Tsuma Ishida The Ishida & Aimoto Family Shizu Shigeoka Usanosuke Otani

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