Jodo Mission of Hawaii

Bulletin - APRIL 2017

(#1245-0417)

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

Guest Speaker:

Dr. George Tanabe Date: Sunday, April 2, 2017

Time: 9:30 a.m.

Place: Jodo Mission of Hawaii 1429 Makiki Street Honolulu, HI 96814

Hawaii Buddhist Council (HBC) 2017 Buddha Day Food Drive: Please bring your donation to the Buddha Day Service. Recommended are non-perishable food items like canned goods, rice, spaghetti ingredients, pasta, corn starch, cooking ingredients and so forth. Thank you for your dana.

Parking: Limited parking available; car pooling encouraged.

Light Refreshments will be served.

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Need for Smal l F lowers for Hanamido

The Hawaii Buddhist Council Buddha Day Service will be held on Sunday, April 2, 2017 at 9:30 a.m. at Jodo Mission of Hawaii. Part of the service is the display of a Hanamido. A sample Hanamido is pictured on the right. In the middle of the Hanamido is a small statue of Baby Buddha. At the Buddha Day Service, each person may pour sweet tea over the Baby Buddha.

We will need small flowers such as plumerias to deco-rate this Hanamido. If you have any small flowers, please bring them on April 1st to:

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

Thank you so much for your help with flowers for the Hanamido. Please join us for this Buddha Day Service on Sunday, April 2, 2017 at 9:30 a.m.

ALERT— Nokotsudo/Columbarium Users Please do not bring any beer, sake, fruits or any type of food items to the Nokotsudo/Columbarium when you visit your ancestors. Some people are watching this temple and when they feel it is safe, they will come and either take the liquor, fruits or food items with them or they will eat/drink them while in the Nokotsudo/Columbarium.

This is very important! We do not want to encourage these strangers! Thank you very much for your cooperation!

Jodo Mission of Hawaii

“Go for Broke” Movie Stacy Hayashi, who authored “Journey of Heroes” about the 100th Infan-try Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team is in the final phase of the movie “Go for Broke”. There is a funeral scene to be filmed at Jodo Mission of Hawaii and she would like as many members to come out on Saturday, April 15, 9 am to 12 noon and be a part of this movie. So please come and if possible dress like the 1940’s period. Thank you.

Sick of Being Sick, Get Healthy the Natural Way

On Sunday, March 12, Dr. Terry Shintani was our guest speaker. Also his assistant, Dr. Diane Nomura came with him and gave a wonderful introduction. Dr. Shintani is a well-known pre-ventive medicine doctor who received his masters degree in nutri-

tion at Harvard University and his law and medical de-grees at the University of Hawaii. What was interesting was when he commented that doctors prescribe medicine for people to get well and the medicine prescribed only helps alleviate the symptoms and does not necessarily do away with the problem. While studying nutrition, he found that there are ways that people can cure themselves by correcting their diet. He stated “eating junk food will make you have a junk body”. Dr. Shintani is such a

wonderful speaker and has such a down-to-earth personality that our members felt comfortable enough to ask questions. Those who had concerns about certain ailments asked questions about that specific ailment. Dr. Diane also answered questions that members and visitors had. Dr. Shintani has written many, many books which you can find over the internet. His latest book is entitled “The Peace Diet”.

He has a radio show on Sundays from 8 pm to 9 pm on KWAI, K-108, 1080 on the AM dial on your radio or you can listen online on your computer or smartphone: www.kwai1080AM.com This URL will take you to the radio station’s website. On the website, click on the link that says: “Listen to US Now—We are on the Internet”. That should take you to the live radio show going on at that time. You will know if you are connected when you hear the sound/audio. It may take about 30 seconds or less. Do NOT click any other links or buttons on the site while you are waiting. That will take you somewhere else, away from the radio site. Listen to his radio show and maybe sometime in the future he will come back to again give anoth-er talk to our members,

Ukulele Making

Would you like to build an ukulele? What if I said you could make a top quality instrument in less than a couple of hours? Would you be interested? If you say yes, then sign up for my new ukulele making class at Jodo Mission of Hawaii. For more information stop by Jodo Mission

of Hawaii for the flyers or send your inquires to:

ukemakingclass@gmail.com attn: Stuart Nago Page 3

Visitation by Bukkyo University

On February 20, 2017, 16 students and 2 instruc-tors from Bukkyo University of Kyoto, Japan, visit-ed Jodo Mission of Hawaii. Bukkyo in Japanese means Buddhism and the university’s philosophy is based on Pure Land Buddhism. Upon arrival at the temple, there was a service conducted by our minis-ters. Students were in Hawaii as part of an exchange program with the University of Hawaii for one week of extensive English study.

Each year when they come to Hawaii they are served refreshments of fruits (papaya and pineapples), juice and ice cream from Hawaii.. The students and instructors really enjoyed the Hawaiian fruits, fruit punch and ice cream.

Reminder: April 30—Part 2 of “A Gift for Your Family: The Importance of Advance Care Planning”

On March 19, 2017, our guest speakers were two nurses: Joy Kurihara, GNP (Geriatric Nurse Practitioner) and Patricia W. Nishimoto, DNS (Adult Oncology Clinical nurse Specialist at Tripler Army Medical Center). They were both volunteer speakers with Kokua Mau and we were happy to have them as our guest speakers.

They stressed how important it was for each of us to have a plan as to what our care wishes are and to talk to the person who is our “agent” on our behalf and to discuss with our doctor. This “agent” would be designated and called upon when you are unable to make decisions for yourself. Who designates that you are unable to make decisions will be determined by certain questions that can be asked by a doctor. It was mentioned that American Savings Bank has a “Senior Handbook” which gives a lot of information.

As a follow up, please come on Sunday, April 30, at 10:00 a.m. when Joy Kurihara and Patricia Nishimoto will come back to answer more questions.

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Honolulu Jodo Shu Fujinkai

On February 26, 2017, Honolulu Jodo Shu Fujinkai had their General Membership meeting and New Year’s Party. Rev. Yubun Narashiba thanked the ladies for their many years of dedication to the temple. Fujinkai has always been there for the temple. Kyodan President Jon Riki Karamatsu also thanked the ladies for their dedication and continued his talk on positive thinking. Even if you have a bad day, it may not have been all bad because if you think back on the day’s activi-ties there may have been some good things or at least one good thing that happened and as you begin to think of each day you will feel like the day was not all bad and when you add all these positives, life looks brighter!

Rev. Narashiba installed the officers of the Honolulu Jodo Shu Fujinkai: President: Sally Hayashi; Vice President: Akiko Nishiyama; Recording Secretary: Christine Inouye; Assistant Recording Secretary and Corresponding Secretary: Carly Molnaire; Treasurer: Yukari Narashiba; Assistant Treasurer Tomoko Hisamoto; Auditors: Doris Soma and Gail Masa-ki. All were given a purple yarn lei made by Gail Masaki. Thank you Gail!

After the ceremonial portion and welcome addresses, the ladies moved to the Social Hall for a wonderful New Year’s party with food ordered from Natsunoya Tea House: maki and inari sushi, oriental chicken salad, hibachi chicken, baked fish, nishime, noodles. There were also desserts made by the mem-bers, etc. The Keiro women and supporters (all over 80 years old; oldest 97) were honored with a con-tainer of sekihan. These Keiro women have worked hard for so many years for our temple! With all their aches and pains, they still come to the temple to help in whatever way they can.

Arigato Gozaimasu! Gail Masaki then demonstrated and each person made a yarn lei.

Left: Peggy Miyamoto dis-played her finished lei. Note the 2 favors by her left hand which were put together by Christine Inouye. Also note on the table is a package of Seki-han which each Keiro person received. It was a nice party! Next year hope to see more

Fujinkai ladies!

1st row: Doris Soma, Mikie Karimoto, Yoshiko Kitagawa, Tomoko Hisamoto, Harue Maki, 2nd row: Clifford Miya-moto (supporter), Peggy Miyamoto, Teruto Soma (supporter), Akiko Nishiyama, Harumi Molnaire

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.

David Atsushi Yamamoto 64

Peggy Mitsue Sakahara 91

Eleanor Emiko Nishimura 92

Ukiko Tanigawa 89

Mildred Kanayo Teraoka 86

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

Oahu Jodo Shu Rengo Fujinkai Convention

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

WHEN: Sunday, April 23, 2017 at 10am PLACE: Haleiwa Jodo Mission

Bus leaves Jodo Mission of Hawaii at 9 am and will leave Haleiwa at 2 pm

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 Chiyono Toyomura

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 Loretta Masayo Fujikami

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 Richard Tadataka Nomiyama

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 Tsuyuko Kaneda

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

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