Jodo Mission of Hawaii

Bulletin - APRIL 2016

(#1233-0416)

Jodo Mission of Hawaii 1429 Makiki St. Honolulu HI 96814 Address Service Requested

HBC BUDDHA DAY CELEBRATION

April 8th is the birthday of Shakyamuni Buddha. This birthday celebration is known as "Buddha Day” and is also known as “Hanamatsuri”.

The Hawaii Buddhist Council cordially invites everyone to the Buddha Day Service.at Higashi Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii. The guest speaker is Mrs. Chizuko Endo.

WHEN: Sunday, April 10, 2016 at 9:00 a.m.

WHERE: Higashi Honwanji Mission of Hawaii 1685 Alaneo Street, Honolulu, HI 96817

Guest Speaker: Mrs. Chizuko Endo Co-Founder of Taiko Center of the Pacific

Parking is limited, carpooling encouraged ================================================

HBC Buddha Day Food Drive 2016: Let’s help the homeless/houseless be able to say, “Itadakimasu” and “Gochisosama deshita.” Please bring your donation to Buddha Day Service. Recommended are non-perishable food items like canned goods, rice, spaghetti ingredients, pasta, corn-

starch, cooking ingredients, etc. The Hawaii Buddhist Council is comprised of the following Buddhist temples: Higashi Hongwanji Mission, Honpa Hongwanji Mission, Jodo Mission of Hawaii, Koyasan Shingon Mission, Nichiren Mis-sion of Hawaii, Soto Mission of Hawaii and Tendai Mission of Hawaii. It is always nice to get together with fellow Buddhists! Please come and celebrate Buddha’s Birthday!

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Hanamatsuri Celebration a t Jodo Miss ion

Jodo Mission of Hawaii will have its own Hanamatsuri Celebration on Sun-day, April 3, 2016. Please come and bring your family and children.

When: Sunday, April 3

Time: 10:00 a.m.

Where: Jodo Mission of Hawaii 1429 Makiki Street Honolulu, HI 96814 PH: 949-3995

Hawaii Buddhist Council 2016 Buddha Day Photo Contest Theme: “Friends”

[Photo should capture Buddhist messages such as non-violence, harmony, mutual respect, and interdependence]

To Enter: DEADLINE: April 1, 2016

Step 1: Take a photo.

Step 2: Please use your name in the photo’s file name that you will attach and send.

Step 3: Then, please email your photo to aloha.hbc@gmail.com with your name, age, tele-phone number, and temple name. (Children under the age of 10, must have parental approval to participate.)

* Only one entry per person will be considered. * All entries will be displayed at Higashi Hongwanji Hawaii Betsuin April 10-17, 2016. *The photo must be taken by the submitter. *Hawaii Buddhist Council reserves all rights to the photos submitted.

Oahu Jodo Shu Rengo Fujinkai Convention

Any Honolulu Jodo Shu Fujinkai member who wants to come to the Oahu Jodo Shu Ren-go Fujinkai Convention in Honolulu, please contact Jodo Mission (949-3995) to put in your reservation for your bento lunch. You are most welcome and this is a good opportunity to meet the Fujinkai ladies from Haleiwa.

WHEN: Sunday, April 24, 2016 at 10:30 a.m. PLACE: Jodo Mission of Hawaii 1429 Makiki Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96814

After lunch, there will be a card making session and possibly BINGO game. Please come!

H a w a i i E h i m e K e n j i n k a i

Rev. Yubun Narashiba is a member of the Hawaii Ehime Kenjinkai, a social ser-vice group. Recently, the Hawaii Ehime Kenjinkai used Ikoi Hall to have a cooking demonstration by Chef Yuji Ogai, also a member of Hawaii Ehime Kenjinkai. Chef Ogai prepared three dishes of the Ehime Prefec-ture of Japan, namely Uwajima Local Cuisine. Uwajima is the town where the Ehime Maru boat came from and whose students died in waters outside of Oahu.

1) Satsuma-jiru (soup made with Barley miso from Ehime Prefecture and was served with oat rice. No Satsuma-imo (sweet potato) was used).

2) Fukumen (Secret Mask - because the striped Konnyaku is covered with 4 differ-ent colored ingredients. The texture of the Konnyaku is mixed with other ingredients re-

minds you of the taste of old hometown). Left photo, Chef is finely cutting Konnyaku. Right photo is the finished Fuku-men. At far right is another version of the Fukumen. Then the Fukumen is mixed together and the

dark colored strips shown are dark colored Konnyaku.

3) Seasoned Okara (Chef learned this dish while working at a famous Waikiki restau-rant. Among the chefs, this dish is also called “Uno Hana” or “Deutzia flower”. At left Chef is mixing the Okara and photo at right is the finished product next to the mixed

Fukumen.

Hopefully, Chef Ogai will come up with other demonstrations!

Repair of Amida Buddha Statue in Betsuin Altar

When you visit the Betsuin, you will notice that the Amida Buddha statue is not there. It was shipped to Japan for repair. Special craftsmen arrived from Japan to take it to Japan for repair. It will take about three to four months before it returns.

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D e n D e n M u s h i

On Sunday, February 21, 2016, four students from Shukutoku University Pan-el Theater Group performed their panel story singing for everyone who attended the Sunday Service. Also performing were the creator of panel theater, Rev. Ryojun Kouda of Tokyo and Professor Tsukasa Takahashi of Kyoto Bukkyo University.

The students were: Risa Katsuki, Yuki Takano, Yumi Kato and Yudai Takahashi. While on Oahu and on the neighbor islands, Den Den Mushi visit care homes. Everyone enjoyed their performance which also included some audience participation.

Rev. Ryojun Kouda is the creator of panel theater. He is pictured at the left singing BINGO. He performs with such happiness and enjoyment of what he is do-ing that you can see why Den Den Mushi also follows that enthusiasm!

Professor Tsukasa Takahashi also per-formed in a different style with authentic Japanese music. He is pictured in the white shirt with a lei.

The students of Den Den Mushi are so talented! This group sang, played a guitar and pianica (a large harmonica with a key-board).

Thank You Note from Den Den Mushi

Dear Jodo Mission of Hawaii:

Thank you for letting us perform our Panel Thea-ter, and sorry for our poor English.

We are very impressed by your warn hospitality. We had a very good time and experience.

We hope that we will see you again. Thank you very much!

Dendenmushi Risa Katsuki Yuki Takano Yumi Kato Yudai Takahashi

Above: Den Den Mushi re-ceived from audience partici-pation At left, Rev. Kouda played music while performing his panel theater in the dark.

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Honolulu Jodo Shu Fujinkai

On February 28, 2016, Honolulu Jodo Shu Fujinkai had their General Member-ship meeting and New Year’s Party. Bishop Gensho Hara thanked the ladies for their dedication to the temple and at the same time also mentioned that although food prepar-ing is important, which the Fujinkai ladies are known for, we must also attend Sunday Services. Kyodan President Jon Riki Karamatsu also thanked the ladies for their dedi-cation and remarked how the women in our lives are the strengthens of our families. After the ceremonial portion and welcome addresses, the ladies moved to Ikoi Hall for a pot luck New Year’s party with such a variety of foods, deserts, etc. Then came the BINGO games. Keiro women and supporters (all over 80 years old; oldest 97) were honored with a container of sekihan. These Keiro women have worked so hard for all these many years to our temple! With all their aches and pains, they still come to the

temple to help in whatever way they can. Arigato Gozaimasu!

Oahu Youth Retreat

Sunday School stu-dents from Halei-wa Jodo Mission and Jodo Mission of Hawaii attended service at Betsuin before riding a bus to Sea Life Park. They spent a won-derful day learning about sea animals. This would be a wonderful photo for the HBC Photo Contest!

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.

Harry Etsuro Miura 89

Takeko Morioka 104

J. Jackson Miyagawa 72

Stanley Riyosei Matayoshi 96

Jodo Mission Office Hours:

Monday to Saturday

8am—5pm

Sunday & Holidays

8am—3pm

Phone: 949-3995

Website: www.jodo.us

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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 ministers pray for that individual during the morn-ing 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 wel-come you to attend the morning service at 9:30am.

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.

Rev. Yubun Narashiba Head Minister

Rev. Kanjun Nakano Resident Minister

Bishop Gensho Hara Lahaina, Maui

Den Den Mushi and Taisho University Students

On February 21, 2016, a few Taisho University students with coordinator Toshimichi Sakurai and manager Nana Kimijima visited and en-joyed the performance of Den Den Mushi. So did a few of Jodo Mission’s Sunday School Students.

1 Yasuemon Kajioka The Kajioka & Morita Family Yae Ogata Mistuko Arakawa Shimoyo Karamatsu Seiichi Kimura George Kaname Sakuda

2 Ryosaku Maeda The Maeda Family Shuzaburo Kunihiro The Kunihiro Family Masao Kamihara James Isamu Tomita Hoichi Nishimura Family

3 Kinjuro Ajimura The Ajimura Family Katsuichi Takeda The Takeda Family Takeo Kuniyuki Katsusaburo Yamamoto Kikue Kubota

4 Masayo Kusunoki The Kusunoki Family Shinichi Amakawa The Amakawa Family Hitomi Miyaura

5 Tsune Isobe The Isobe Family Mamoru Najita Isematsu Takenaka Kazumitsu Kaya Kikuyo Kunimura

7 Yasu Hirohama The Hirohama & Kawasugi Family Kikujiro Uchiumi Naomi Fuse Johnson Fay Johnson Yumi Yokoyama Isaburo Terada Toru Yamane

8 Tadaichi Aoki The Aoki Family Kojiro Okamoto The Okamoto & Nakamoto Family Shigekichi Yoshizaki The Yoshizaki Family Naotaka Hayashi Misue Imamoto Yoshio Takara Masamitsu Nakano

9 Shizuko Hironaka The Hironaka & Ishimoto Family Fumie Iwasaki Tokio Nishikawa

10 Tomi Arakawa Matsuji Yamamoto

11 Tsunekichi Matsuno The Matsuno Family Sadako Yokoyama The Yokoyama & Morita Family Teru Sakuda The Sakuda Family Sada Harada The Kohatsu Family Yoshiko Hara

12 Naka Nakamura Toshiko Umemoto 13 Yasuko Daitoku The Daitoku & Fujimoto Family Kayo Doi Tsuyo Uchiumi Zentoku Uyehara Yasu Iguchi Masashi Yamane

14 Heiji Yasumoto The Yasumoto Family Yoshi Okamura (2) Kiyoto Kawaoka

15 Toso Kamisato The Kamisato Family The Aoki Family Mikayo Higashimura Toshiro Kawabe The Kawabe Family Masakane Himuro Kenji Hayashi Toshiko Sumida Nishimoto William Hatsuichi Kishimoto

16 Bunsuke Isobe The Isobe Family Ryu Tsurusaki The Tsurusaki & Inada Family Masatoshi Umemoto Patsy Hisako Himuro Mitsuyoshi Gushikuma

17 Kenichi Namba The Namba Family Tsuneharu Imaguchi Betty Hisako Goto

18 Toyokichi Iguchi The Iguchi & Sasaki Family Eki Mineishi The Mineishi Family Yojiro Watanabe

19 Jun Kunihiro The Kunihiro Family Motoo Ueda The Ueda Family Maka Tamanaha The Tamanaha Family Matsutaro Shimizu Isamu Yoshioka Thomas Rai

20 Hiroshi Ohta Mantsu Takara Shozaemon Matsumoto Mildred Yukiko Ito

21 Naomi Takara Genichi Tamura Kikue Kakimoto

22 Kyoichi Koyama The Koyama Family Chieko Miyakawa Hiroshi Nakai The Nakai Family Kazu Saiki Kyoichi Koyama Francis Sadamu Furutani, Jr.

23 Bishop Sensho Fukuda Eiko Gushikuma Shigeichi Aoki Moushi Uyehara Tom Shigeo Muranaka

24 Setsuyo Misawa (2) The Misawa Family The Watanabe Family Yoshio Kunimoto

25 Michizo Imaguchi (2) The Imaguchi Family Yasuko Ueda Tsunegoro Iwamoto Soichi Sakai

26 Kikujiro Yokoyama The Yokoyama & Morita Family Makoto Takahashi Masato Ishida Tokue Uehara

27 Misae Umemoto The Umemoto Family The Ida Family The Matsushima Family Shizue Nose Robert Kazuo Murakami Haruko Teruya Fumiye Teruya

28 Rokusuke Yanagihara The Yanagihara Family Iwakichi Matsuda The Toichi Funamoto Family Misao Yamane Masa Okamoto Miyao Ume Kawamura Stanley Y. Ogomori

29 Mitsuyo Kamioka The Kamioka & Hanaoka Family Tatsuyo Ohara (2) The Ohara Family Tsuchi Kajioka Heijiro Asai Tsune Uesugi Yukiji Kamioka Manzuchi Higashi Kazuto Hamada Hatsumi Nakamura Yoshiyo Yanagihara Mitsuyo Kanai Yoshida Mitoshi Tanaka (2)

30 Tsuru Matsuno Esa Yamane Kume Nakamoto The Nakamoto & Sakagawa Family The Matsuno Family The Yamane Family & Harada Family Shigetaka Imada Miyoko Shindo

EITAIKYO (Perpetual Memorial Service) for April

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