Jodo Mission of Hawaii

Bulletin - AUGUST 2013

Jodo Mission of Hawaii 1429 Makiki St.

Honolulu HI 96814

Address Service Requested

(#1201-0813)

Bon Dance 盆おどり

August 16, Friday: 6:30pm-9:30pm

August 17, Saturday: 6:30pm-9:30pm

(August 16, Friday: 5:45pm Jizo Bon prayer will be held in front of Jizo statue)

Please come, bring your kimonos, happi coats and dance around the yagura and enjoy the many food items: bentos, BBQ

sticks, saimin, sushi, yaki soba, soba salad, spam musubi, Andagi (Okinawan donuts), hot dog, chili, chili and rice, pull pork sandwiches, waffle dog, juice, soda, shave ice, water, etc.

Food Booths will start at 4:30pm

Kiddie games will also be available

Getting ready for the Bon Dance

Dancers enjoying

themselves around the

yagura

Games for

children

Helping with Bon Dance Preparation: If you are willing to help with Bon Dance preparation, your help is most appreciated. Please come to the Temple on Thursday, Aug 15 and/or Friday, Aug 16 and/or Saturday, Aug 17 at 9:00 a.m. If you are only avail-able in the evening during Bon Dance hours, we can also use your help. Please contact the Temple for more information.

Bon Dance Practice: Bon dance practice will be held Tuesday, August 13 and Wednesday, August 14, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Everyone is welcome to practice or learn from instructors in the inner circle.

Jodo Mission Happi Coats: Jodo Mission

will be selling its own happi coats. If you are interested you may contact Jodo Mission or come to the Bon Dance.

Above photo, people are getting ready for Bon Dance.

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Prayer is given before Bon Dance begins

Bon Dance is the fellowship part of ancestor

worship—Dancing is for everyone! Yummy

foods of all kinds! Games for children! Happi

coats and bon dance towels for sale

People enjoy

watching the

dancers happily

go around the

yagura.

Children enjoy

playing games.

1. When Someone Passed Away

Death ↓ Medical examination ↓ Call for a minister ↓ Makuragyo (Bedside service) ↓ Call for a mortuary ↓ Body pick-up ↓ Meeting with the funeral director at the mortuary ↓ Viewing service ↓ Cremation ↓ FUNERAL with the first 7th day service ↓ 49th day service Burial service ↓ Hatsubon (1st O-Bon) service ↓ 1 year memorial service

2. When Someone Is Very Close To Death

Call for a minister ↓ Rinju Gyogi (Last rites) ↓ Death ↓ Medical examination ↓ Call for a mortuary ↓ Body pick-up ↓ Meeting with the funeral director at the mortuary ↓ Viewing service ↓ Cremation ↓ FUNERAL with the first 7th day service

↓ 49th day service Burial service ↓ Hatsubon (1st O-Bon) service↓ ↓ 1 year memorial service

VISION FOR THE FUTURE (5)

By Rev. Yubun Narashiba

Japanese Buddhism in Hawaii has a very unique cultural background.

In Japan, Buddhist customs differ from village to village, town to town,

prefecture to prefecture. This is because Buddhism has been localized to fit to the custom

in each area. Since Japanese immigrants came to Hawaii from the various regions of

Japan, ceremonial customs are different according to the area where the family came from.

However, as time passes, those customs are becoming unclear and more confusing for the

younger generations. Because of this confusion, younger generations seem to be going

away from Buddhism by saying that Buddhism is hard to understand. Therefore, in this

article, I would like to explain the standard procedure of doing a service. As the first, let me

show you the two common procedures of having funerals among the members of Jodo

Mission of Hawaii.

Note: Above two service procedures are purely for informational purpose. We shall honor your family customs and

decisions to arrange a funeral service.

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**Editor’s note: This article is a reprint from our August 2011 issue. Because this article contains information you will need to

know some day, we will be reprinting it from time to time as space permits.

Thank You to All Who Participated with O-Bon Activities

Thank you to all who attended our O-Bon Services. It is so nice to see so many fami-

lies come to pay respects to their deceased ancestors. For some of you, this may have been your

first experience. Hope you enjoyed our services, including the private services. Thank you also

for the many monetary and rice donations.

Thank you to all our ministers who performed the many O-Bon services (2 services

for Hatsubon families and 5 other O-Bon services). Thank you Bishop Gensho Hara and Rev.

Yubun Narashiba for conducting services on July 12 and 13 and Rev. Narashiba for the special

O-Bon Service on July 14. Thank you also to Rev. Nakano, Rev. Watanabe for your help with

O-Bon services. A special thank you to Rev. Koji Ezaki of Haleiwa Jodo Mission for his help

with the Friday services. So many families requested private services in front of their O-Tobas.

Thank you to Rev. Narashiba, Rev. Nakano and Rev. Watanabe who conducted these private

O-Toba services. Thank you again to all our ministers for your many hours of chanting

during our ancestors’ visit at O-Bon!

Thank you to all who came to help with the O-Toba set up and general cleaning on

June 30th. As you can see from the photos on this page, it is hard work to put the O-Tobas up.

We could not do it without your help! Hope you enjoyed yourselves and that while you worked

hard, you enjoyed the fellowship, which is very important.

Thank you to the Fujinkai ladies who prepared meals for the ministers and workers

during O-Bon. Thank you to the Sr. YBA for providing beautiful chrysanthemum potted

plants for sale.

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O-Toba Set Up Photos

[Most photos were taken in 2012; but the same amount of

work and manpower is involved with the O-Toba set up]

It takes 2 men for each O-Toba - one to position and

hold\the O-Toba while the other pounds 2 nails to secure

the O-Toba. Above is Richard Murashige and friend work-

ing together. Left photo is Rev. Nakano and Clifford Miya-

moto working together Both men and women volunteers carry O-Tobas. Above is Dean

Soma, Catherine Fujihana and Lianne Kitajima carrying

O-Tobas to be placed in their positions.

Many O-Tobas

are in the truck

waiting to be set

up. It was a

beautiful, sunny day. When all

the O-Tobas are

set up—how

beautiful they

look on the Tem-

ple grounds!

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O-BON PHOTOS

Faces you remember when going to

O-Bon service: above is Mae Yo-

rimoto who volunteers in the office.

Right is Doris Soma and Aki

Nishiyama at the sign-in desk. Diane Okubo was at the Choba desk, how-

ever we did not have a photo of Diane.

Many families attend O-Bon service

Right photo is in front of the Segaki-dan. Seated are Debbie

Nakata, Tomoko Hisamoto, Sophie Narashiba, Yukari

Narashiba and Yoshiko Kitagawa. Goeka offerings are

done at the 2:00 p.m. services on Friday and Saturday.

[This photo was from 2012.]

After each O-Bon Service, ministers go through

each row of O-Tobas and give a prayer to each O

-Toba. Members also follow the ministers

through each row of O-Tobas.

Rainbow Pigeons Ceremony: This was our second

year in ending our O-Bon Services with the releasing

of Rainbow Pigeons to lead our ancestors back to the

Pure Land. [Again this year we do not have photos of

the Rainbow Pigeons flying. Perhaps by the next

month’s Bulletin, someone will share the photos they

took of the Rainbow Pigeons. Last year like this year-

Sophie Narashiba opened the cage to release the

pigeons: white ones, green ones, pink ones, orange

ones, purple ones—so beautiful!

Fujinkai Craft Fair Honolulu Jodo Shu Fujinkai recently held its first out-

side vendor craft fair on Sunday, June 23, 2013. With the help

of Diane Okubo (who volunteers at the Betsuin office) approx-

imately 14 different outside vendors—selling Tupperware, baby futons, Nerium skin products,

hand designed earrings & bracelets, Thirty-One Bags and Accessories, Asian table lamps, ori-

gami pictures, money leis, pet products, Hawaiian salt seasonings, kettle corn, sterling silver

earrings, necklaces, polymer clay products, hair ornaments for Bon Dance, etc. THANK YOU

DIANE AND ALL VENDORS! HOPE YOU HAD FUN!

Fujinkai ladies and supporters made maki sushi, inari sushi, sushi vinegar, saba nitsuke,

kimpira, tsukemono, pull pork sandwiches, vegetable salad, pasta salad, jams and jelly, brown-

ies, cereal mixes for sale. Everything was delicious! THANK YOU FUJINKAI LADIES

AND SUPPORTERS!

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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.

George Sakae Fukuda 85

Soichi Akiyama 95

Charles Yoshito Oshita 89

Dorothy Sakiko Kobayashi 86

James Shoichi Hasebe 89

Janice Yoshiko Kitashiro 89

Richard Shunichi Yoshida 81

Henry Arthur 77

Kazue Ohara 88

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

Rev. Dwight

Nakamura Retired Minister

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Rev. Yasuhiro

Watanabe

2013 BON DANCE SCHEDULE OF JODO SHU TEMPLES

Island Temple Phone No. Dates Times

Oahu Betsuin 949-3995 Aug 16 to 17 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Haleiwa 637-4382 July 26 to 27 7/26: 8 pm – 10 pm

7/27: 8 pm – 11 pm

Big Island [Hawaii]

Kurtistown

Call Rev. Miyazaki

(808) 935-6996

August 3 8:00 pm

Hilo July 12 to 13 7/12: 7:30 pm

7/13: 8:00 pm

Hakalau August 17 8:00 pm

Hamakua

Call Rev. Wansa

(808) 775-0965

August 10 6:30 pm

Kohala July 13 6:30 pm

Hawi August 3 6:30 pm

Maui Kahului Call Rev. John Hara

(808) 244-0066

August 10 7:00 pm

Wailuku June 28 7:00 pm

Lahaina (808) 661-4304 July 6 7:00 pm

Kapaa (808) 822-4319 August 2 to 3 7:30 pm Kauai

Koloa (808) 742-6735 July 5 to 6 7:30 pm

Apology for July Eitaikyo List: We apologize

for incorrectly spelling the following deceased per-

son’s name or placing name on incorrect day:

7/7: Kenneth Tsugio Ito

7/26: Pauline Aiko Nakamura

EITAIKYO (Perpetual Memorial Service) for August

2 Sato Hirouji The Miyamasu Family The Hirouji Family The Nakamura Family Tadashi Nakamura Janet Okawa 3 Satsu Hashimoto The Hashimoto Family 4 Masaichi Harada Tsuru Nomura The Nomura Family Sumako Iguchi Kenkichi Kimoto Keisuke Masuda 5 Tori Matsubara The Matsubara Family Tahei Higashimura The Higashimura Family Mantaro Nitta Toichiro Tomita Yutaka Kubota 6 Toshiko Nishimura Yoshio Fujii 7 Kametaro Yano (2) The Yano Family The Yano, Konaka & Hayashi Family Chokichi Tanaka The Tanaka Family Aiko Fukuhara The Inouye Family Kikuno Yamane Kaneichi Kato 8 Takao Tsuda Kitae Yamanaka The Yamanaka Family Zentoku Takara Kame Taira Russel Hideo Uehara 9 Takeo Sato The Sato & Suzuki Family Hiro Yonemoto Tora Higashi The Hashimoto Baby Evelyn Murakami Yonemoto Family The Higashi Family 10 Seitaro Yamamoto The Suzuki & Yamamoto Family Takaji Shigeoka Kinichi Imai Saburo Nishimura Ito Fujita The Fujita Family Hideo Yamagata 11 Tomegusu Kotake

Kuranoshin Matsumoto 12 Hatsuichi Karimoto 14 Ashizuchi Fujikami The Fujikami Family Shizuo Yokomichi The Yokomichi & Kondo Family Iichi Yanagihara Yoshijiro Iwamoto 15 Maki Hara The Hara Family Bishop Shoshin Inouye The Nose Family Sata Nitta Torano Toyoshiba Noboru Hamamura Hatsue Yamada Watanabe Robert Tokusai Kaneshiro 16 Masao Mizuno The Mizuno & Ohta Family Ume Miyamasu The Miyamasu Family The Masaki Family Yoneo Masuda The Masuda Family 17 Toshikata Shinagawa David Kenji Moritsugu Kiyoji Yamamoto Kazuyo Furukawa 18 Mitsuru Morisako The Morisako & Ishii Family Shinsuke Mito The Mito Family Fuji Yasumoto Hanayo Imai Miyuki Ono Toraichi Kurakake Rev. Ryokai Yamanaka Ruysuke Machida Haruo Okuhara 19 Eiko Maeda The Maeda Family Kiyoshi Hisamura Hisano Oyabu The Oyabu & Kondo Family Wakichi Suzui Family Takeshi Umetsu Sakae Matsumoto 20 Shizue Iwamoto Henry Hashimoto Kame Namihira Chie Nakagawa 21 Yoshisuke Sato The Sato & Suzuki Yutaka Tejima The Tejima Family Saka Kuniyuki

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