Jodo Mission of Hawaii

Bulletin - AUGUST 2017

Jodo Mission of Hawaii 1429 Makiki St.

Honolulu HI 96814

Address Service Requested

(#1249-0817)

Bon Dance 盆おどり August 18, Friday: 6:30pm-9:30pm August 19, Saturday: 6:30pm-9:30pm

August 18, Friday: 5:45pm

Jizo Bon prayer will be held in front of Jizo statue)

August 18-19 (Fri-Sat): 6:00 pm Taiko performance by Dragon Beat to begin our Bon Dance

bentos, BBQ sticks, saimin, sushi, yaki soba, gyoza, spam musubi, Andagi (Okinawan

donuts), hot dog, chili and rice, turkey jook, juice, soda, shave ice, water, etc.

Food Booths will open at 4:30pm

Kiddie games will be available

Dancers enjoying themselves around the yagura and lots of people watching & enjoying

Taiko players pray before their performance

Please come, bring your family and friends with their kimonos, happi coats and dance around the yagura and enjoy the many food items:

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 17 and/or Friday, Aug 18 and/or Saturday, Aug 19 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 15 and Wednes-day, August 16, 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. Below Taiko performance to begin our Bon Dance

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Prayer is given before Bon Dance begins

Bon Odori is the fellowship part of ances-tor worship—Dancing is for everyone!

Yummy foods of all kinds! Games for children! Happi coats and bon dance towels for sale.

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 9th. As you can see from the photos on this page, there were so many O-Tobas to set up. It takes a lot of man power to put the O-Tobas up. To secure one O-Toba, one person needs to hold the O-Toba while another person

pounds a nail to secure the O-Toba.

Also thank you to the women who helped clean our temple and Nokotsudo or Columbarium and for those who prepared the delicious lunch! See photos below.

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 below to the right showing all the O-Tobas set up! Beautiful! This is hard work! It is with all your kokua that it is possible to welcome the departed spirits to Jodo Mission. Hope everyone enjoyed yourselves while working hard and you enjoyed the fellowship, which is very important. ARIGATO!

In addition to cleaning and setting up the O-Tobas, the electricians needed to set up the wir-ing.

Someone needs to set up the faucet for those bringing flow-ers and someone needs to trim our co-

conut tree so our Jodo Mission sign can be seen from the freeway (our

ministers). ARIGATO Page 4

Harue Maki, Mutsue Yanagihara and Doris Soma. Missing is Aki Nishiyama.

Sifting the ashes from the koro (so the small pieces of senko can be taken out) .requires Tomoko Hisamoto to use a face mask protecting her from the ash dust.

Haleiwa Jodo Mission O-Bon Service On July 14 and 15, 2017, Haleiwa Jodo Mission had its O-Bon Services and Toro Nagashi on July 15. As the only other Jodo Shu temple on Oahu, some members of Betsuin and minister Rev. Narashiba went to help. It is so beautiful to see all the lanterns floating. This year, because of the tide, the toro launching was at 9 p.m. and many either did not attend or did not pick up their lan-terns. With the help of volunteers, all the lanterns went on their way.

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Stuart Nago: On May 28, 2017 before going on his trip to Japan, Stuart Nago came to play some ukulele and sing and also mentioned his new book “Kini and the Magic Uke”, which he had written. On June 16, 2017, Stuart Nago returned to Jodo Mission to talk about his trip to Japan and

Goshuinchou—Japan Temple Stamp Book

Have you ever heard of Goshuinchou? This is a popular thing in Japan where one goes to a temple or shrine and obtains a red-stamp from that temple. “Goshuinchou” or stamp book is purchased at the first temple and after the minis-ter makes his mark in the stamp book, it is then used for the next temple/shrine, etc. The minister uses black ink to handwrite the name and date using traditional Japanese calligraphy. After writing, he stamps the book with a large red stamp that is unique to that specific tem-ple. Visitors from Japan stop by for this treat. On this day Rev. Narashiba stamped 4 books for the 4 visitors. Travelers can use this when they go home and open the book of their travels.

his visit with Rev. Hiroyoshi Oeda, wife Mari and their family. Stuart also showed a video Rev. Oeda made introducing his family members which included his father, mother, sister, brother-in-law, children, and other ministers working at their temple. Stuart hopes to

continue his talk about Japan on another Sunday and also go into his new book. So please be on the lookout for another announcement!

Also attending the Sunday Service on June 16, were visitors from Japan—Rev. Shinko Kanda and daughter Yumiko from Osaka and Rev. Hosho Hori from Kyoto. Although Stuart spoke English, all of our guests were able to understand, especially when Stuart talked about the different foods he ate in Japan. After some refreshments, Yumiko went with Stuart, Yukari and Sophie Narashiba to the Ukulele Festival at Kapiolani Park

Rev. Yubun Narashiba Head Minister

Rev. Kanjun Nakano Resident Minister

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Bishop Gensho Hara Lahaina, Maui

Island Temple Phone No. Dates Times

Oahu Betsuin

949-3995 O-Bon Service

Bon Dance

July 21 & 22 July 23 Aug 18 to 19

2:00 pm/7:00 pm

10:00 am

6:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Haleiwa

637-4382 O-Bon Service Bon Dance Toro Nagashi

July 14 & 15 July 14 & 15 July 15

6:00 pm

7:00 pm

9:00 pm

Big Island [Hawaii]

Kurtistown Call Rev. Miyazaki

(808) 936-7828

(808) 935-6996

(808) 936-7828

O-Bon / Bon Dance August 5 6:00 pm / 7:00 pm

Hilo

O-Bon / Bon Dance O-Bon Service

July 8 July 9

6:00 pm / 7:00 pm

10:00 am

Hakalau O-Bon / Bon Dance August 19 6:00 pm / 7:00 pm

Hamakua Call Rev. Wansa

(808) 775-0965

O-Bon / Bon Dance August 12 5:00 pm / 6:00 pm

Kohala O-Bon / Bon Dance July 8 5:00 pm / 7:00 pm

Hawi O-Bon / Bon Dance August 5 5:00 pm / 6:00 pm

Maui Kahului Call Rev. John Hara

(808) 244-0066

O-Bon / Bon Dance July 28 & 29 6:30 pm / 7:30 pm

Wailuku O-Bon / Bon Dance June 16 6:30 pm / 7:30 pm

Lahaina (808) 661-4304 O-Bon Service

Bon Dance Toro Nagashi

June 30 July 1 July 1 July 1

6:00 pm

6:30 pm

8:00 pm

7:30 pm

Kauai Kapaa O-Bon Service Bon Dance Toro Nagashi

June 18 June 23 & 24 July 2

10:00 am

7:30 pm 7:30 pm

Call Rev. Ishikawa

(808) 742-6735

Koloa O-Bon Service Bon Dance

July 30 August 4 & 5

10:30 am

7:30 pm

2017 O-BON AND BON DANCE SCHEDULE OF JODO SHU TEMPLES

Jodo Mission Office Hours: Monday to Saturday: 8am—5pm

Sunday & Holidays 8am—3pm

Phone: 949-3995 Website: www.jodo.us

In preparation of O-Bon Service, someone prepared the chochins to be beautifully present-ed!

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 Aileen Fukunaga 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 Family Shinsuke Mito The Mito Family Fuji Yasumoto Hanayo Imai Miyuki Ono Toraichi Kurakake Rev. Ryokai Yamanaka Ryusuke 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 Sojiro Takamura Rikiichi Yagi 31 Toshiatsu Misawa (2)

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

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