Jodo Mission of Hawaii

Bulletin - AUGUST 2016

Jodo Mission of Hawaii 1429 Makiki St.

Honolulu HI 96814

Address Service Requested

(#1237-0816)

Bon Dance 盆おどり August 19, Friday: 6:30pm-9:30pm August 20, Saturday: 6:30pm-9:30pm

(August 19, 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, gyoza, spam musubi, Andagi (Okinawan donuts), hot dog, chili, chili and rice, turkey jook, juice, soda, shave ice, water, etc.

Food Booths will open at 4:30pm

Kiddie games will be available

Getting ready for the Bon Dance

Dancers enjoying themselves around the yagura

Helping with Bon Dance Preparation: We do need your help with Bon Dance preparation. Please contact the temple office to let them know you are able to help. Help is needed on Thursday, Aug 18 and/or Friday, Aug 19 and/or Saturday, Aug 20 from 9:00 a.m. If you are only available a few hours, whether it is during the day or during the Bon Dance hours, your help will be much appreciated! Please contact the office to let them know when you are available. Thank you. Bon Dance Practice: Bon dance practice will be held Tuesday, August 16 and Wednes-day, August 17, 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 as well as dancers danc-ing around the yagura. Also delicious foods for purchase!

Taiko Drums to begin our Bon Dance!

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-Toba Set Up

Thank you to all who came to help with the O-Toba set up and general cleaning of the temple and Nokotsudo or Columbarium on Sunday, July 3rd. As you can see from the photos on this page, there were so many O-Tobas to set up. It takes a lot of manpower to put the O-Tobas up. [These photos were taken in 2015 when it was a hot, sunny day but on July 3rd, it was a rainy day.] Also thank you to the women who helped clean our temple and Nokotsudo or Columbarium and for those who prepared the delicious lunch!

With the help of many of you (members, relatives and friends of members), we were able to have the O-Tobas set up and ready for O-Bon services. See photo to the right showing all the O-Tobas set up! This is hard work! It is with all your

kokua that it is possible to welcome the departed spirits to Jodo Mission. Hope every-one enjoyed yourselves and that while you worked hard, you enjoyed the fellowship, which is very important. ARIGATO!

All the O-Tobas were beautifully written by Rev. Narashiba. Thank you very much!

O-Bon Services: THANK YOU Bishop Hara and Rev. Narashiba for performing the seven O-Bon services and Rev. Koji Ezaki from Haleiwa Jodo Mission and Rev. Goshin Nakamura of Gudon-in Temple in Miyagi-ken in Japan, who came to assist. Special thank you to Rev. Narashiba who read all the names of O-Toba and Chutoba offerings. Thank you Rev. Narashiba and Rev. Nakano for the many private O-Toba services conducted. Thank you Mae Yorimoto for handling the chochin orders, setup and preparing the Chutoba memorial tablets. Thank you to the Fujinkai ladies who prepared meals for the ministers and workers during the three days of O-Bon services. Thank you to the Sr. YBA for providing beautiful chrysanthemum potted plants for sale. Thank you to Akiko Nishiyama and Gail Masaki for taking care of the regis-

tration desk and Clifford Miyamoto for taking care of the Choba or donation desk.. Thank you to Calvin Hara and the Kiwanis Club for directing traffic. Thank you to Tsutomu Nakai Sensei for sending our ancestors’ spirits back to the Pure Land with Taiko drum music until next year!

Thank you to all those who purchased an O-Toba and came to visit their O-Toba and those who purchased a Chutoba

for an O-Bon Service. Thank you for attending our O-Bon Services. Most important—thank you for remembering your beloved ancestors!

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Haleiwa Jodo Mission O-Bon Service On July 8 and 9, 2016, Haleiwa Jodo Mission had its O-Bon Ser-vices and Toro Nagashi on July 9, 2016. As the only other Jodo Shu tem-ple on Oahu, some members of Betsuin and ministers Rev. Narashiba and Rev. Nakamura went to help. It is so beautiful to see all the lanterns floating. This year, because of the tide, the toro launching was at 10 p.m. and many either did not attend or did not pick up their lanterns. With the help of volunteers, all the lanterns went on their way.

More Jodo Mission of Hawaii O-Bon Photos

After O-Bon Service, families, gather and visit their O-Tobas.

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Long lines of people in the background waiting for their turn to offer incense. While others waited for their spon-sor’s name to be called, some were happy to have their photos taken.

Walk through each row of O-Tobas with the minis-ters. There were a lot of Hatsubon people who joined the ministers and experienced walking through each row of O-Tobas.

After walking through each row of O-Tobas, you are able to offer incense

Fujinkai ladies: One group of ladies who helped on the last day of service.

Sr. YBA Jo Ann Matsuo and Peggy Miyamoto were helped by Sophie Narashiba.

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

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Bishop Gensho Hara Lahaina, Maui

2016 BON DANCE SCHEDULE OF JODO SHU TEMPLES

Island Temple Phone No. Dates Times

Oahu Betsuin 949-3995 Aug 19 to 20 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Haleiwa 637-4382 July 8 to 9 7/8: 8 pm – 10 pm 7/9: 8 pm – 11 pm

Big Island [Hawaii] Kurtistown

Call Rev. Miyazaki (808) 936-7828

(808) 935-6996

(808) 936-7828

August 6 8:00 pm

Hilo July 16 8:00 pm

Hakalau August 20 7 or 8 pm (not set)

Hamakua Call Rev. Wansa

(808) 775-0965

August 13 7:00 pm

Kohala July 9 7:00 pm

Hawi August 6 6:00 pm

Maui Kahului Call Rev. John Hara

(808) 244-0066

August 19-20 7:30 pm

Wailuku June 17 8:00 pm

Lahaina (808) 661-4304 July 2 8:00 pm

Kapaa (808) 822-4319 June 17 to 18 7:30 pm Kauai

Koloa (808) 742-6735 July 29 to 30 7:30 pm

O-Bon: Our bulle-tin board collapsed with a gust of wind. Rev. Ezaki, Jo Ann Matsuo and Rev. Nakamura put it back together. This bulletin board is probably 30 years old. Next year hopefully we will build a newer one! Thank you very much!

EITAIKYO (Perpetual Memorial Service) for August

1 Cordelia Reiko Ushiroda 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 Thomas Yoshiaki Shimizu

12 Hatsuichi Karimoto 13 Doris Kiyoko Miura Toshio Kouchi 14 Ashizuchi Fujikami The Fujikami Family Shizuo Yokomichi The Yokomichi & Kondo Family Iichi Yanagihara Yoshijiro Iwamoto Shizuno Muraoka 15 Maki Hara The Hara Family Bishop Shoshin Inouye The Nose Family Sata Nitta Torano Toyoshiba Noboru Hamamura Hatsue Yamada Watanabe Robert Tokusei 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 Fami-ly 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 Morishige Inage Misao Kuniyuki Yoshi Nishimura Toshiyuki Ogawa Toraichi Kurakake 22 Yuri Hironaka The Hironaka & Ishimoto Family Masuichi Tabata Miyoko Hokushin Takenouchi 23 Yoshisuke Masuda Raymond Tetsuji Nishiyama 24 Kazuo Kano The Kano & Wataba 6 Family Teisuke Hamamoto The Hamamoto Family Eizo Fukuda Tatsuki Heirakuji Sueko Onaga (2) 25 Tema Iuchi The Iuchi Family Kiku Masuda The Masuda & Asamura Family Etsuko Ohta The Ohta Family Koji Yasumoto Gladys Otsui Ikeda 26 Tadasuke Nishida Masaji Ishida Umeno Masuda Torao Maehara Yachiyo Tamura 27 Harumi Tasaka Shigeo Kobashigawa The Kobashigawa Family Kenji Kawano 28 Hitoshi Mizuno The Mizuno & Ohta Family Seikuro Hisamura Shichiemon Ebisuzaki (2) Hana Noyama 29 Tadashi Higashi The Higashi Family Kenji Hamada The Hamada Family Atsushi Fujita The Fujita Family Masahiko Miyagi 30 Thomas Takeshi Tanaka Elsie Kikuye Tatei Katsumi Nishimoto Sojoro Takamura Rikiichi Yagi 31 Toshiyasu Misawa (2)

Misawa & Watanabe Family Misawa Family Akira Misawa Riyo Yano Edith Kiyoko Kaneshiro

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