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Jodo Mission of Hawaii Bulletin - JANUARY 2015 (#1218-0115) Jodo Mission of Hawaii 1429 Makiki St. Honolulu HI 96814 Address Service Requested ***New Year’s Greetings *** Gensho Hara, Bishop Shinnen Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu! Reciting Namu Amida Butsu, embraced by the great compassion and wisdom of Amida Bud- dha, I wish you and your family a happy and peaceful New Year! In welcoming the New Year, I ask all of you to renew your commit- ment to the temple, join in temple services and activities, and most importantly recite “Namu Amida Butsu” in your daily lives for a happy and fruitful life embraced by Amida Buddha. My sincerest appreciation goes to all of you—our members, ministers, families, and friends—for your devotion and support in our temples, where we gather to recite “Namu Amida Butsu.” Above the entrance of the Betsuin, engraved in Sanskrit letters, are the words by Dr. Kaigyoku Watanabe, a renowned Buddhist scholar and devotee of the Nenbutsu, “Sacred Temple of Pure Land Buddhism.” Every place where we call Amida Buddha’s Name is a sacred temple. But we are espe- cially fortunate to have our temples—where our ancestors and loved ones went to during times of celebration and happiness as well as trouble and sadness—as a place to continue to join together and practice our Nenbutsu. Reciting “Namu Amida Butsu,” we are grateful to Amida Buddha who hears our prayers, our gratitude, and our woes. Reciting “Namu Amida Butsu,” we are released from suffering and are able to find peace knowing that Amida Buddha hears us calling his Name. [continued on page 2]

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Jodo Mission of Hawaii

Bulletin - JANUARY 2015

(#1218-0115)

Jodo Mission of Hawaii 1429 Makiki St.

Honolulu HI 96814

Address Service Requested

***New Year’s Greetings *** Gensho Hara, Bishop

Shinnen Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu! Reciting Namu Amida

Butsu, embraced by the great compassion and wisdom of Amida Bud-

dha, I wish you and your family a happy and peaceful New Year!

In welcoming the New Year, I ask all of you to renew your commit-

ment to the temple, join in temple services and activities, and most importantly recite “Namu Amida Butsu” in your daily lives for a happy and fruitful life embraced by Amida

Buddha.

My sincerest appreciation goes to all of you—our members, ministers, families, and

friends—for your devotion and support in our temples, where we gather to recite “Namu

Amida Butsu.”

Above the entrance of the Betsuin, engraved in Sanskrit letters, are the words by Dr.

Kaigyoku Watanabe, a renowned Buddhist scholar and devotee of the Nenbutsu, “Sacred

Temple of Pure Land Buddhism.”

Every place where we call Amida Buddha’s Name is a sacred temple. But we are espe-

cially fortunate to have our temples—where our ancestors and loved ones went to during

times of celebration and happiness as well as trouble and sadness—as a place to continue

to join together and practice our Nenbutsu. Reciting “Namu Amida Butsu,” we are grateful to Amida Buddha who hears our prayers, our gratitude, and our woes. Reciting “Namu

Amida Butsu,” we are released from suffering and are able to find peace knowing that

Amida Buddha hears us calling his Name. [cont inued on page 2]

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New Year’s Greetings

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Continuation of Bishop Hara’s message

This has been possible because of generations of dedication to Jodo Shu in Hawaii,

beginning with the arrival of our pioneer ministers of Hawaii Jodo Shu, Rev. Taijo Mat-

suo and Rev. Gakuo Okabe, 120 years ago. On September 20, 2014, we observed the

120th Commemorative Service celebrating the arrival of Rev. Matsuo and Rev. Okabe at

Hamakua Jodo Mission, the first Japanese Buddhist temple built in Hawaii. Looking back at our 120-year history of Jodo Buddhism in Hawaii, I am overjoyed that our

Nenbutsu teaching has helped the Japanese immigrants overcome the hardships of their

daily lives and raised families and generations of Nenbutsu practitioners. Today, in our

busy lives, the Nenbutsu is a place where we can retreat and find serenity guided by

Amida Buddha.

In 2015, we will observe various commemorative projects to continue to celebrate 120 years of Hawaii Jodo Shu. One of the highlights being a seminar and symposium of

Jodo Buddhism and its future in Hawaii, on March 14 and 15 at the Betsuin. Please make

every effort to attend this symposium.

In closing, may I ask for your continued support and dedication. May the compassion-

ate light of Amida Buddha guide us always.

With Gassho,

Gensho Hara, Bishop

Message from Kyodan Board President

Dear Friends,

Aloha! I hope you had a year filled with great memories with family and

friends. Even among some of our sad and challenging experiences, we have

grown stronger and more grateful of life. As practitioners of Buddhism, we are

able to overcome difficult situations and appreciate everything around us. Through the teach-

ings, we understand how our existence can play a role in spreading love and compassion.

Thank you for every kind gesture you have done for others and all you have contributed to our

world. When it is our time to move on to the afterlife, we will leave everlasting imprints of

our love here with all those we have touched and we will continue to do the same wherever we

go to next. I wish you a wonderful 2015 and may peace and joy be with you forever.

Love, Jon Riki Karamatsu

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New Year’s Greetings

Akemashite Omedeto Gozaimasu! This means “Happy New Year!” in

Japanese. It literally means “Congratulations that a new year has opened up!”

Since we are humans, we made so many mistakes last year. However, finally

the new year has come for us to start a new life! The door of the year 2014 is

closed and now the door of 2015 is open! Do you remember one of the most

important teachings in Buddhism? No Attachment! Now, let’s start a brand-

new New Year!

If many good things happened to you during the past year, let’s pray for more good things to

happen in this year again. If you lost your beloved ones, let’s pray for them to be able to live

happy and peaceful second lives in the Pure Land.

New Year is a good time to make resolutions. Let’s make resolutions to live a good Buddhist

life during this year by saying the following prayer:

May Buddha help me to move forward,

May You help me to understand Your teachings and respect them,

May You help me to apply Your teachings to my daily life,

May You help me to practice Buddhist customs,

May You help me to share my happiness with others, and

Please always be with me.

Now I would like to thank volunteers who worked so hard last year. Because of your help,

the activities of the last year such as O-Bon, Bon Dance, Bazaar, Mochi Making and so on were

very successful. Let me ask you for your continuous support to our temple.

I also would like to thank those who made donations for repairing our columbarium and the

bathrooms of the temple. They are painted very beautifully now. At the end of the last year, we

took down the temple bell because the support got rusted. We would

like to put it back as soon as possible.

Also, I am very glad that a Kokua relationship was established with

Kiwanis Club last year. As you may already noticed, they helped the

parking for our O-Bon services and Bon Dance last Summer. I am sure

their young energy and power will help us a lot again this year.

I am sure hard times and glad times will be ahead, but if we trust in

the power of Buddha and work together, our future will be very successful. Now is the time to

understand the role that each one of us plays for the betterment of our community.

At the end of my message, I would like to announce that we are hosting a seminar on March

14 and 15 in commemoration of 120 years of Hawaii Jodo Shu. I hope many people come to this

seminar and learn the teachings of Jodo Buddhism.

May Buddha keep on shining upon us and may you have a very Happy New Year!

In Gassho,

Rev. Yubun Narashiba

Jodo Mission of Hawaii

Head Minister

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GYOKI-E CHUTOBA FORM 2015(御忌会中塔婆申し込み用紙) Deadline: January 7, 2015

YOUR NAME(お名前):_________________PHONE(お電話番号):________

NAME OF DECEASED(亡くなった方のお名前):

1._________________________________________________________

2.____________________________________________________________

3.____________________________________________________________

4.____________________________________________________________

One Chutoba is $ 7.00 × Total of Chutoba ______ = Total $______

(中塔婆 1本 7ドル) (本数) (合計)

FOR OFFICE USE ONLY Order accepted by: _______________ Date accepted: _______/______/ 2015 (In person / Mail / By phone)

Received by: _______________ Date paid: _______/______/ 2015 (Cash / Check # __________ ) Write_______

-------------------——----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Gyoki-e (Honen Shonin’s Memorial Service)

Gyoki-e means the me-

morial service for Honen Shonin.

Honen Shonin, who is a founder

of Jodo Shu, passed away on Jan-

uary 25th, 1212. He was 80 years

old.

After Honen Shonin

passed away, his disciples and

believers started to have a memo-

rial service for him on the 25th of

every month. The biggest cere-

mony was held on 25th of Janu-

ary every year. This service was

held not only locally in Kyoto but

it spread all over Japan. In those

days, the word “Gyoki” meant

the anniversary of the deaths of

the Emperors or their wives. The

word “Gyoki” was such a respect-

able word for the Emperor's fam-

ily.

Three hundred years later,

after Honen Shonin passed away,

the Emperor Gokashiwabara

mandated Jodo Shu to call the

anniversary of Honen Shonin’s

death “Gyoki”. Since then, peo-

ple called his annual memorial

service “Gyoki”. This occasion

implied that Honen Shonin was

clearly accepted and revered by

the Emperor and the people.

Our Gyoki-e service will be

held on January 18th at 10 a.m.

Please join us.

Chutoba is available for this

Gyoki-e service. At this service

you may also honor your

deceased ancestors with a Chuto-

ba prayer. See above Chutoba

order form.

Founder of Jodo Shu :

Honen Shonin (1133-1212)

Gyoki-e Service

January 18 at 10 a.m.

____ I plan to attend service

____ I do not plan to attend

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MAHALO

Thank you everyone who came for general

clean-up of the Temple, including the Col-

umbarium or Nokotsudo on December 12,

2014. Your hard work and dedication to the

Temple are deeply appreciated.

Thank you to the Sunday School and Inter-

mediate YBA for the delicious pizza lunch-

eon and visit by Santa. What an enjoyable

treat after general cleaning!

GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING

As members of Jodo Mission of Hawaii, you are cordially welcome to attend the 2014

General Membership Meeting on Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 10:30 a.m., following the

Sunday Service in the temple. Please join us. Following the religious and business portion,

please join us for a New Year’s party (see below).

Shinnenka i 新年会 New Year’s Party

Please join us for our New Year’s Party following the Annual General Mem-

bership meeting. All members and friends are invited. Come and meet your

Board of Directors.

Date: Sunday, January 25

Time: 11:30 am (after General Membership Meeting)

Place: Jodo Mission Social Hall

Also invited to our New Year’s Party are former dormitory residents of Jodo Mis-

sion of Hawaii. If you know of anyone who resided in the dormitory here at Jodo

Mission, please either call us 949-3995 or have that person contact the temple. If

they are unable to attend, we still would like to hear their story of their experience

at Jodo Mission. Thank you.

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Obituaries

The Jodo Mission of Hawaii extends

its sincere condolences to the family

members and loved ones of the following

members who have recently left this

world for the Pure Land.

Katsutoshi Yano 92

Allen Iwao Kamibayashiyama 73

Shigeko Aoki 89

Dorothy Nishimura Murashige 85

Hisako Fujimoto 99

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

Rev. Dwight Nakamura Bishop Emeritus

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.

FAQ: How should we discard Kagami Mochi?

ANS: Because of the unique climate of Hawaii,

Kagami Mochi gets moldy much faster than

Japan. Therefore, it is recommended to take

them down after the three holy days of the

New Year (i.e. on January 4th), though it is

the common practice in Japan to keep them

until January 11th.

After you take them down, it is the best if

you eat them. However, in Hawaii, it is quite

possible that the Kagami Mochi is already

moldy. In that case, sprinkle a dash of salt on

the Kagami Mochi to purify them just like

Sumo wrestlers purify the Sumo ring with

salt and put them in a paper bag or wrap

them with paper such as news paper, and

then throw them away.

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1 Sekitaro Hirohama

The Hirohama & Kawasugi Family Kenji Fujikami

The Hashimoto Family The Ohara Family Haruko Ikuta

Tsugio Takamatsu Family Tomomitsu Kawamura The Kawamura Family

Fukuda Tokusaburo’s Father Hon-yo Jo-dai Shin-ji The Fukuda Family

The Nakamura Family Chukichi Asamura Toyo Asamura

The Masuda & Asamura Family The Yamasaki & Hara Family The Yoshizaki Family

The Matsushita Family The Aoki Family The Sakuda Family

The Okamura Family Stanley Satoru Morimoto

2 Richard Hichiro Kawamoto 3 Hideo Toyoshiba

Yoshitaka Wada 4 Tamaru Muraoka

5 Kiyo Fujikami The Fujikami Family

Shizuyo Morisako Kasuke Yamane Jiro Nakamura

Randall Loreg The Loreg Family

6 Kikuyo Yamasaki Eiichi Fujita Shigeharu Ohata

7 Jiro Oyabu The Oyabu & Kondo Family

Kazuko Nomiyama Tetsuko Miyamoto Kama Takara

Ruth Shigeko Tarumoto 8 Matsujiro Otani (1) The Otani Family

The Yanagihara Family Toshio Isoibe The Isobe Family

Matsujiro Otani (2) Taketo Sumimoto (1) Juichi Uesugi

Fusataro Higuchi Taketo Sumimoto (2) Kenji Miyakawa

Nobu Kishimoto 9 Taka Tomonari

The Tomonari Family Asa Hayashi Hisako Takamura

10 Hiroko Yoza The Yoza Family

Kami Higa The Higa Family

Bishop Ninryo Nago

The Nago & Kunimoto Family 11 Tokoe Imaguchi

The Imaguchi Family Hatsuko Hayashi The Hayashi Family

Masakichi Teruya Reginald Hisao Hisamura Uichiro Ishii

Kohei Umeda Matsuyo Yamamoto Tadashi Yanagihara

12 Heiji Fukuda (1) Heiji Fukuda (2)

The Fukuda Family Nagao Yamada Shokichi Harada

Tadashi Yanagihara 13 Bishop Jiko Kuya

Shima Morita Shizue Fujita Shima Morita

14 Akitaka Chikamoto The Ohta Family

Genzo Yanagihara The Yanagihara Family Tsuchiyo Kimoto

Miyoko Kaya James Akira Tamura

15 Tane Nagata (1) The Nagata Family Sukeichi Kameoka

The Kameoka Family Tane Nagata (2) Mildred Misako Tanimura

Shizue Kimura 16 Take Shinagawa

Tomojiro Fujita The Fujita Family Kenji Iwamoto

Chiyoka Mizuno Seiichi Shimamoto

17 Hanayo Taniguchi Kame Okamoto Moto Kawasugi Nobuo Hayashi

18 Kiyomatsu Daitoku (1) The Daitoku Family

The Kawauchi Family Katsutoshi Takada The Takada Family

Kiyomatsu Daitoku (2) Itaro Kurihara The Kurihara Family

Masao Ishii Shoichi Ishida

19 Tai Kawano The Kawano Family Chiyo Tomai

The Tomai Family Miyo Ueno The Ueno Family

20 Shinazo Nishiguchi

The Nishiguchi Family

Noboru Ajimura The Ajimura Family Kiku Kimura

Yuriko Nishimoto 21 Sueko Higashimura

Kiku Kimura The Kimura & Muroshige Family

Masao Teruya Takeo Yamane Shimo Hatanaka

Hiroshi Furuya Tsuneko Shintaku Koichi Ronald Namihira

Aileen Mitsuyo Kishida 22 Masae Tanimura

Konoshin Kimura Fukukichi Tatei

23 Shokichi Fukumoto The Fukumoto Family Takeo Yoshihara

The Yoshihara Family The Tanaka Family Jiro Kiyama

Ralph Toshiaki Hashimoto Terry Kazuo Yorimoto

24 Heikichi Isobe The Isobe Family Machi Yokoyama

The Yokoyama & Morita Family Toranosuke Kinoshita Tane Kinoshita

The Kinoshita Family Tsune Aoki George Masao Tanaka

Helen Katsuko Ito Tetsuo Shinohara

25 Taka Fukuda The Fukuda Family Saiichi Hyodo

Joseph Yoshihiko Fujihana Sadako Oki Teruko Mamiya

The Sato Omura Family Takeshi Tanaka 26 Take Arita

The Arita Family Haruo Nakamura The Nakamura Family

Kimio Yagi The Yagi Family Sueyoshi Yanagihara

Yoshi Yamamoto Chester Takeo Kaita

27 Seiichi Fujimoto The Fujimoto Family Takeshi Sato

Charles Shoichi Kimura Hiroko Nakano Yoshiro Ohta

28 Yoshie Sato The Sato & Suzuki Family

Sae Higashimura The Higashimura Family

Tome Yamanaka

The Yamanaka Family Chizuko Saeki Sadamu Iwamoto

Yooko Fujimoto 29 Tomo Isobe

Hana Kinoshita The Kinoshita Family Jisaburo Kanemoto

The Kanemoto & Miyamoto Family Kansuke Shintani

Fusao Taniguchi Ralph Hitoshi Tanaka Toshito Fukuda

30 Kumaichi Tomonari The Tomonari Family

Tsunejiro Kawasaki The Kawasaki & Nakagawa Family

Ine Yoshizaki The Yoshizaki Family Tomota Kakehashi

Masao Kume Akio Matsuda Kiyoshi Kamimura

Barbara Okimoto 31 You Kawamura

The Kawamura Family Shizuko Aoyama Kaname Yamanaka

Takeo Tanaka Shigeno Ohara

Perpetual Memorial Service (Eitaikyo) For January 2014

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