JODO MISSION OF HAWAII

BULLETIN - JULY 2010

Jodo Mission of Hawaii 1429 Makiki St.

Honolulu HI 96814

Address Service Requested

Concert Announcements The Life of Honen (cont’d) O-Bon Perpetual Memorial Service Calendar

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CONCERT UNVEILING OUR NEW PIANO A concert unveiling our new piano will be held on Sunday, June 27, from 10:30 a.m. at Jodo Mission. (Our new piano was made possible through donations from Honolulu Jodo Shu Fujinkai, Honolulu Yoshimizuko, and many, many private donations.) This concert will be a joint concert with Stuart Nago, who is a music lecturer at Kapi`olani Community College, Darin Miyashiro, who is the Koto instructor at University of Hawaii and Rev. Kanjun Nakano, who is the former piano instructor at Kacho Col-lege in Japan and is now a minister of Jodo Mission of Hawaii. Guest performer is June Suzuki, who is a Shamisen instructor. Admission is free and refreshments will be served in Ikoi Hall. Of course, your kind donation is always welcome.

Stuart Nago Darin Miyashiro June Suzuki Rev. Kanjun Nakano

Announcements

BARAZUSHI & TURKEY FUNDRAISER On May 23, 2010, we completed two successful fundraisers. The idea of selling prepackaged smoked turkey drumsticks was suggested by Mr. Adachi of the Manoa Aikido Club. He had completed a successful fundraiser selling this product. Once the Temple’s Board of Directors agreed to tackle this project, we contacted Kala Kokua. Aki Nishiyama accounted for and mailed the turkey drumstick tickets to our members. We cannot image the headache this must have caused her! Early on the day of the fundraiser, Aki prepared and cooked a tasty luncheon for each fundraiser volunteer. The Fujinkai ladies Tomoko Hisamoto, JoAnn Matsuo and Judy Teruya arrived around 5:00 AM to wash and cook the rice for barazushi. Other Fujinkai ladies including Sally Hayashi, Mikie Karimoto and her daughter Ann Gimbo, Ethel Miyamoto, Peggy Miyamoto, Yukari Narashiba, Doris Soma, Carol Yanagihara and friends in-cluding Martha Miura, Kay Oshiro and her daughter Karen, followed by fanning the hot rice, adding just the right amount of ingredients to make them ono, then packaging the barazushi for selling, and collecting money for the barazushi. ALL the barazushi were sold in an hour. WOW! There were many members saying they wished they came earlier to buy the barazushi. YUM, they were delicious! Simultaneously that morning, boxes of frozen smoked turkey drumsticks arrived. Conscientiously, Ian Kitajima, JoAnn Matsuo, Clifford Miyamoto, David Miyamoto, Veedu Vinod, Masa Oshiro and Herbert Fujikawa quickly opened boxes and packaged the drumsticks for sale. Sally Hayashi and Tomoko Hisamoto added cooking instruc-tions and recipes with the drumstick packages. With their cheerful smiles, Karen Oshro, Rev. Yubun Narashiba and a new friend Linda Mayahara handed out turkey drumstick packages/boxes for sale (even in the morning rain and wind). Sophie Narashiba called out her THANK YOU for each sale. Doris Soma accounted for the incoming tickets. Thank you Ian Kitajima for troubleshooting (whether it involved sales discrepancies to customers, moving the products from site to site, packaging the drumsticks and assisting with the cleanup). Please forgive me if I did not mention your name and you also gave of yourself this day. I humbly thank everyone who contributed their time, energy and muscles during these simultaneous fundraisers! Everyone pitched in doing multiple jobs to complete this day. WHAT DEDICATION! I was overwhelmed, just seeing how wonderful everyone worked together, the camaraderie, the laughter, this was another valuable project goal which was accomplished this day due to the giving of each volunteer. Kala Kokua and we found discrepancies involving the size and prepackaging of the turkey drumsticks (drumsticks were two in a pack versus one per pack). Two drumsticks per pack size were just right for one or two eaters, but if you received one drumstick per

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THANK YOU Have you noticed there is a little patch of lawn re-cently planted on the side of the Temple grounds? That is the work of Teruto Soma (pictured here on the right with Sophie Narashiba). Also helping Mr. Soma was JoAnn Matsuo. Mr. Soma pulled the nut grass, loosened the soil, picked up grass from Home Depo, cut sheets of grass into smaller pieces and planted them. THAT’S A LOT OF WORK. He fer-tilized the new plantings, watered, and gave them tender loving care and walla, we have a beautiful lawn on the side of the Temple. It is quite beautiful!

Mr. Soma did this because he is proud of our Temple and he wanted it to look a little better for the Japan

Yoshimizuko Group arriving on June 25th. THANK YOU SO MUCH MR. SOMA.

Smoked Turkey Corner How did you prepare your smoked turkey drumstick? Rev. Narashiba said he made a sandwich by cutting a few slices and putting it between 2 slices of bread with a little mayonnaise, pickled red cabbage, alfalfa sprouts. And he said it was delicious. He also made fried rice with the smoked turkey drumsticks and he and his wife made smoked tur-key curry with brown rice. The smoked turkey drumstick can be eaten in so many different ways. We would very much be interested in what you prepared with your turkey drumstick. Please let us know. We would like to continue this column to see what interesting ways people ate their turkey drumsticks. Thank you.

Barazushi & Smoked Turkey Drumstick Fundraiser (Continued from Page 2)

pack, then you might have been surprised. The one drumstick was gigantic! You can be creative cooking these drumsticks. I hope many recipes come to mind. But most of all, this successful fundraiser could not be accomplished without YOU, the cus-tomer! Through your support, our Temple will continue to serve both you and I. DOMO ARIGATO! Respectfully, Yvonne Sugihara Chairperson for Kala Kokua Turkey Drumstick Fundraiser ****************** THANK YOU VERY MUCH Yvonne for all your hard work and dedication on a successful fundraiser!!!!

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Announcements

JODO MISSION BULLETIN If you would like to know more about Jodo Mission of Hawaii, we are willing to send you our bulletins via Email or regu-lar mail. Please let us know your Email address or mailing address. All of your information will be confidential. Please call at 949-3995

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Sunday School No Sunday School in June, July. August

If you know of anyone who may want to join our Sunday School, please call Jodo Mission.

Lay Persons & Fujinkai Convention September 17-19, 2010 on Maui

The Lay Persons Convention is being held on the Island of Maui during the week-end of September 17 to 19. The schedule so far begins the Convention on September 17 in Lahaina and then moves to Kahului on September 18. if anyone is interested in attending, please contact Jodo Mission.

Anyone can attend the Lay Persons Convention which is a convention or gather-ing of all Jodo Shu members from the State of Hawaii. Originally started to discuss Temple membership, lack of ministers, membership dues, etc. The Convention serves the purpose of socializing among all Temple members. Whatever topics are cov-ered, they are then referred to Kyoku.

Possible topics for this year would be a Uniform Service Procedure or what can we do to attract more members as our mem-bers become older.

Fujinkai: The Lay Persons Conven-tion will set aside some time for the Hawaii Rengo Fujinkai to meet on Maui. Hawaii Rengo Fujinkai usually meets every other year and needs to decide whether it will continue.

O-Toba Set Up on Sunday, July 25 at 8:00 a.m: Your help is needed to set up the many O-Tobas. If you can spare a few hours and help set up the O-Tobas, we would greatly appreciate your help. Lunch will be provided. Temple Clean-up Day, Sunday, July 25, at 8:00 a.m. In preparation for the O-Bon services, we will be cleaning the Tem-ple, including the Columbarium. Please join us! Everyone is welcome! It is hard work but it can be fun; lunch will be provided.

Why not make this a family project! We welcome everyone on Sunday, July 25 for ei-ther O-Toba set up or Temple Cleaning.

Bon Dance at Haleiwa Jodo Mission

Haleiwa Jodo Mission Bon Dance will be held on July 30 & 31, 2010. A shuttle bus is available on Saturday, July 31.. Price of bus fare is $3.50. Bus will leave promptly at 4 p.m. from Jodo Mission to Haleiwa and will leave Haleiwa around 10:30 p.m. to return to Jodo Mission. Please call Jodo Mission at 949-3995 to put your name on the bus list. Deadline is July 23, 2010.

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Amanda Youth who graduated from Iolani High School was the honoree at the Baccalaureate Service held on Sun-day, May 30, 2010 and sponsored by the Jodo Mission Sun-day School. You may have seen Amanda at many of the Temple’s lar-ger functions, i.e. bazaar, Bon Dance, previous chicken sales, New Year’s Eve Services.

Amanda with Kay Oshiro who coordinates Sunday School activi-ties.

Amanda will be attending the University of Oregon in the fall to further her education. She plans on majoring in Psychology and wants to work with kids/teens who have problems in the areas of low self-esteem, eating disorders, drug abuse, depres-sion, etc. Amanda has been volunteer-ing at Teen Line Hawaii for

about a year. Teen Line Hawaii is associated with Coalition for a Drug Free Hawaii and is a service organization providing useful information and resources on a variety of teen-related topics through their website and public events. Amanda attended the National Youth Conference in Washington, D.C. this past January through Teen Line Hawaii and was able to meet other teens from across the United States. She also experienced snow for the first time. For the past two years Amanda has helped manage the JV Boys Volleyball team at Iolani and played on one of JV Girls Volleyball teams at Iolani during her Sophomore and Junior years. We wish Amanda best wishes. Please study hard and when you return on your vaca-tions that you drop by the Temple and visit with our Sunday School.

Amanda with her proud parents, Mia and Michael Youth and Grandpa Stanley Kitajima

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The Life of St. Honen The Founder of Jodo Buddhism in Japan

By Rev. Dwight K. Matsunami [published in The Hawaii Buddhism, October. 1956 issue]

PART 2 (cont’d from June 2010 Bulletin)

At last a new light came upon him when having read the works of Genshin and Shantao, a firm belief began to take shape, that is to say that by the teaching of Other’s Power only by the Faith in Amida Buddha, even the wicked can be saved, because everyone is equal by the effect of common faith and by the confidence in the grace of Amida Buddha. After having perceived the existence of a serene realm be-yond love and hate, he was finally convinced that by this faith in Amida Buddha, one may be born into such a Pure Land, and as a result of it, the Nembutsu, the constant repetition of “Namu Amida Butsu” was requested. In the spring of 1177, he established himself a new sect, the Jodo Sect of Buddhism, at Yoshimizu near Kyoto.

He was then forty years old, and from that time until the very moment of his passing away, he was never weary of welcoming men and women of all classes to his fold—aristocrats and plebians, scholars and ignorant folks, all gathered around him eager to hear the teaching he revealed. All-tormented souls were awed, and his words were balm to their hearts, because he preached a simple trustful moral, announcing salvation for all. It is said that criminals and prostitutes were amongst those he converted. Everybody wished to hear the gospel of the Fountain of Joy. But, like all pioneers St. Honen encountered strong opposi-tion from all quarters: many jealous people

Denounced him as being an enemy of pub-lic order and he should be banished to a distant island.

In 1207 the gentle Honen started for his exile. He was then seventy-four years of age, but his heart was full of joy and he for-gave his persecutors, or he thought his exile would allow him to preach the gospel in a far region where none of the inhabitants had heard of it as yet.

Four years later he was forgiven . The gentle saint returned from the isle or Shi-koku still smiling with the joy of men who perceived light once more after waiting long in darkness. But this joy was of short duration for St. Honen fell ill. His disciples gave him all possible care, but each day the Saint lost strength. On the 25th of January in 1212, at the age of seventy nine, the gen-tle Saint surrounded by his disciples kept repeating the Nembutsu, “Namu Amida Butsu’, till his strength failed him. The voice of Nembutsu became more and more weak, then hushed together. Though the lips of the Saint were silent forever, his gentle face was smiling as if he were born into the Pure Land. And his teachings are still alive in the hearts of hundreds of thou-sands of people in the world.

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WHAT DOES IT MEAN? “Byakugo”: When you see the statute of Amida Buddha, you will see some round object in the middle of his forehead. We call this “Byakugo’ and this is the very sign of enlightenment. It is the spot from where the light of wisdom and personality shines, being at the same time the eye to see the reality of things. We have two eyes by nature and though we have tried to see the substance of the universe with them, we will never get to it until we attain the perfect wisdom. The words “poverty of philosophy” were uttered when the world forgot the effort to attain this Byakugo. Don’t you think so?

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Introduction of Sho-ryo Dana in Obon

Butsudan

① Incense : Purify the area of Sho-ryo Dana with the smoke of incense.

② Flower : Flower is a symbol of purity. There are numerous flowers in the Pure Land.

③ Water : Water is a symbol of offering. The offered water is called “AKA” that is translated from a Sanskrit word “Argha”, the most valuable thing.

④ Candle : A candle light is showing us the light of wisdom and compassion of Amida Buddha.

⑦ Mizu-noko : The fresh cut eggplant and cucumber with washed rice. Offering food in prayer to help everyone from hunger in any realms. (Optional)

⑧ Some rice in a bowl of Water and a leaf of Lythrum anceps : This expands food limitlessly. (Optional)

⑨ Nishime without meat : A traditional Japanese food used as monasterial food called Sho-jin Ryo-ri.

⑤,⑥ Cucumber and Eggplant with sticks : With a Cucumber make a horse (using sticks) for your ancestors to return home early. Make a cow with an Eggplant (using sticks) for them to return to Pure Land slowly.

⑩ Somen noodle : Somen noodle is a symbolic food for longevity.

⑪ Fruits and vegetables : Offer gifts of nature to Buddha and ancestors.

⑫ Mochi or any favorite food : Offer your ancestors with their favorite food.

⑬ Bamboo grass : Protection to keep away the bad spirits from the Sho-ryo Dana.

INFORMATION ON ALTAR FOR O-BON (most popular in Japan)

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Fujinkai Meeting Women’s Association

July 4th at 8:30 a.m.

YBA Meeting

July 18th at 8:30 a.m.

Sewing Circle

July 10 8:30 to 11 a.m.

Sign up for O-Bon Service will begin 2 hours prior to each service. This is on a first come first serve basis. NO phone orders will be taken. Closing Service will be on Sunday, August 8 at 10:00am. There will be NO O-Toba prayers during that service. Parking Directors Are Needed: If you are able to help direct cars to parking spaces, please call Jodo Mission at 949-3995. Six persons will be needed for each of the above services. Offering of Rice: During O-Bon Services it is customary to offer a bag of rice. However, monetary donations in lieu of rice are acceptable. “Rice” envelopes are available in the office. Thank you for your understanding and support. Sr. YBA O-Bon Flower Sale: Please help the Sr. YBA by purchasing a beautiful potted chrysanthemum ($1.75 each). No phone orders will be taken. Thank you for your sup-port. Thursday, Aug. 5: 10:00 am to 7:30 pm Friday, Aug. 6: 9:00 am to 7:30 pm Saturday, Aug. 7: 9:00 am until supply runs out Toro Nagashi (floating lantern from the boat): Sunday, Aug. 8 at 8 pm (Pier # to be announced later). Boat capacity is limited so we must limit this to Hatsubon (first time O-Bon) families. Please sign up for this event at the Temple office and you must be at the announced Pier by 8 pm on August 8th..

O-Bon Service Schedule O-Bon Services will be held as follows:

Thursday, August 5—2 pm & 7 pm Friday, August 6—2 pm & 7 pm Saturday, August 7—2 pm & 7 pm

Sunday, August 8—10 am

Private O-Toba Service Appointments: If you wish to have prayers offered in front of your O-Toba, appoint-ments will be accepted from 8:00 am to 6:45 pm from Wednesday, July 28 through Sunday, August 8, 2010.

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What is “Perpetual Memorial Service?” (Eitaikyo)

This record of a perpetual memorial ser-vice 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 during the morning service. 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 8:30am.

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

Apology for June Eitaikyo List We apologize for not listing the following de-ceased persons in the June 2010 Bulletin:

6/17 Helen Miyoko Oda 6/24 Tokiko Kurakake 6/19 Kikuyo Morioka 6/28 Kiyoichi Oshiro

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. Kazue Hasegawa 91 Hideko Miyamoto 83 Jane Mitsuko Hiura 91 James “Biggie” Tsukasa Yamada 91

Jodo Mission Office Hours:

Monday to Saturday 8am—5pm

Sunday & Holidays 8am—3pm

Wedding Services and Baby Blessings are available upon request.

If you are planning to get married or know someone who is planning a wedding or if you would like to renew your wedding vows, you are welcome to recommend our Temple. To pledge eternal love between husband and wife to Amida Buddha is very important. Baby Blessings: May Amida Buddha’s love surround our children with love. Please call for an appointment.

Rev. Yubun Narashiba Head Minister

Rev. Kanjun Nakano Resident Minister

Rev. Dwight Nakamura Retired Minister

Your Opinions Your opinions are important to us. Please feel free to send your opinions to Jodo Mission of Hawaii, 1429 Makiki St., Honolulu, HI 96814. Your opinions will be treated confidentially.

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1 Kichi Yanagisawa The Yanagisawa Family Yone Ishida

2 Toyo Tojo The Tojo Family Tsune Uchiumi Minoru Shigeta Kikuyo Gonhata] Ellen Kimiko Hedani

3 Tamayo Yanagihara

4 Setsuyo Sugihara The Sugihara Family Sumiyo Yamanaka Kajo Teruya Isami Yoshikawa The Yoshikawa Family Kajo Teruya The Yamanaka Family Masaru Taira

5 Asao Takara Shige Ikeda Fred Yutaka Sakuda Donna Haruko Furutani

6 Takaichi Hamada The Hamada Family Miki Ajimura The Ajimura Family Takezo Ishida Yosuke Mitsutani

7 Hisa Akimoto Taki Ishimoto Seiji Ogawa

8 Yoshio Furumoto Kamado Takara Hiroshi Arakawa Sueko Kiyama Shigeko Shimamoto

9 Kameichi Okamura Matsuyo Kamioka Kumataro Gonhata Masashi Kimura

10 Tatsu Yanagihara The Yanagihara Family Shina Kaya The Kaya &Shimazaki Family Keizo Nagata The Nagata Family Yojiro Yamashina Ukichi Nakano Fuji Kitagawa

11 Toyo Nanbu

The Nanbu Family Fusa Murakami The Murakami Family The Yamamoto Family Shigeyo Ipponsugi Iwao Asaumi Fusa Murakami

12 Hideo Higashi Kamesaburo Gushiken Akiyo Yano Morio Yanagihara

13 Kazuichi Akimoto Bunji Aoki The Aoki Family Toki Yamamoto The Yamamoto Family Setsuyo Nitta 14 Takao Amano Kanichi Morita Fukutaro Nagata Haya Kamimura Kazuo Kamimura

15 The Nakagawa Family The Koike Family The Fujisue Family Doris Chiyoko Hayashi Florence Satoko Law 16 The Juichi Yamada Family The Fujii Family The Shikata Family The Nishii Family The Okazaki Family Haruo Okahara The Okahara Family R. Toyoji Tominaga Tetsuichi Umemoto

17 Ito Tanimura The Tanimura Family Kome Nishiguchi The Nishiguchi Family Takiko Amakawa Yumei Uyehara Tomoe Yoshioka

18 Hisako Fujihana The Fujihana Family Seiji Nakagawa Miyoji Aoki Masutaro Kunihisa Tokiyo Masaki Masaaki Maruichi

19 Misae Higashihara

20 Gonshichi Shintaku

Fukuji Ikeda Katsumi Imada

21 Shigeru Nakata Usuke Oda

22 Keisuke Kimura The Kimura Family Takeo Matsunaga Motohiro Tanimura Matsuyo Miyagi

23 June Junko Yamashita Keizo Oda

24 Masako Narahara

25 Matsuno Mishina The Mishina Family Masuo Yanagihara The Yanagihara Family The Kimura Family The Weiss Family (Stillborn)

26 Naosuke Nakamoto The Nakamoto & Sakagawa Family Toshio Fujimoto The Fujimoto Family 27 Sakutaro Koyama The Koyama Family Sayoko Takaoka Hatsu Maruichi

28 Koichi Ogi Sadamu Iwamoto Miyoko Ohara Darin Sueo Furutani

29 Kansuke Yano The Yano, Konaka & Hayashi Family Mitsuo Sakakibara Chiya Wada

30 Noriaki Masuda The Masuda & Asamura Family Kinosuke Kitamura The Kitamura Family Toshisuke Iwamoto Noriaki Masuda Matsuo Hirayasu Bishop Shutesu Miyamoto

31 Haruo Nakano Kameyo Hayashi Usano Yamane

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