(#1236-0716)

Jodo Mission of Hawaii

Bulletin - JULY 2016

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

O-Toba Set Up & Temple General Cleaning Sunday, July 3, 2016 at 8:00 a.m.

YOUR HELP IS NEEDED!

Below is the beginning of the O-Toba set up. The O-Toba foundation were being set up little by little so when the day for O-Toba set up comes, it will not be difficult to see where the O-Tobas should be placed. We must set up 500+ O-tobas on July 3rd. Please help! Thank you.

O-Bon Service Schedule

Friday, July 15

10:00 am (Hatsubon only) 2:00 pm & 7:00 pm

Saturday, July 16

10:00 am (Hatsubon only) 2:00 pm & 7:00 pm

Sunday, July 17

10:00 am

It takes a lot of people to set up the O-Tobas. Please come to help. To bring the hundreds of O-Tobas out to the front lawn, it takes manpower. To set up each O-Toba, it takes at least 2 persons, one to hold the wooden memorial stick and one to pound the nails to secure the wooden tablet. Please come!

O-Bon Service Schedule

O-Bon Services will be held as follows:

Friday, July 15 - 10:00 am (Hatsubon Families Only)

2:00 pm & 7:00 pm

Saturday, July 16 - 10:00 am (Hatsubon Families Only)

2:00 pm & 7:00 pm

Sunday, July 17- 10:00 am

Sign up for O-Bon Service will begin 1 hour before 2 pm and 7 pm services. This is on a first come first serve basis. NO phone orders will be taken.

Closing Service will be on Sunday, July 17 at 10:00 a.m. Cleanup will begin shortly thereafter.

Parking Attendants Needed: We are in need of at least 6 parking attendants for each 2 pm service on July 15 and July 16. Please call Jodo Mission at 949-3995 if you are able to help direct cars to parking spaces. We appreciate your help.

O-Toba Service Appointments: If you wish to have prayers offered in front of your O-Toba, appointments will be accepted (no appointments during ser-vice hours): Tuesday, July 5 to Thursday July 14: 8:00 am to 9:15 am Fri/Sat July 15-16: 8:00 am to 9:15 am; 11:00 am to 1:15 pm 3:00 pm to 6:15 pm Sunday, July 17: 8:00 am to 9:15 am

Offering of Rice: During O-Bon Services it is customary to offer a bag of rice. However, monetary donations in lieu of rice are acceptable. “Rice” envelopes are available in the office. Thank you for your understanding and support.

Sr. YBA O-Bon Flower Sale: Please help the Sr. YBA by purchasing a beautiful potted chrysanthemum ($2.00 each). NO phone orders will be taken. Thank you for your support.

Friday, July 15: 9:00 am to 7:30 pm Saturday, July 16: 9:00 am until sup-ply runs out

Offerings at your O-Toba: The space allowed for each O-Toba is approxi-mately 6 inches width and 7 inches in depth. Space is so precious! See photo at right. In 2014 someone was quite creative! Many family members visit the O-Tobas and bring offerings. Some are very organized and stack their offer-ings neatly in layers. It takes coordination among the various family members.

Most people will offer foods that the deceased liked, i.e. fruits, mochi, pastries, candies, somen for long generation life, juice, soda.

Cucumber and eggplant: Some people will have a cucumber and eggplant on wooden sticks telling our ancestors to quickly back to this world and the eggplant (cow) to slowly return to the pure land and see you again next year.

The most important thing about ordering an O-Toba is to make sure you visit your O-Toba. If you are ill and cannot visit your O-Toba, please make sure you let your relatives know so maybe they will make an effort to visit your O-Toba. Page 2

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The Untold Story Internment of Japanese Amercans in Hawaii

On Sunday, May 29, 2016, Les Goto, volunteer with the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii again came to show a 30-minute film of The Untold Story of the internment of Japanese Americans in Hawaii. On Janu-ary 17 we saw a 15 minute film. There is also an hour DVD. Also in attendance was Jane Kuwahara, a pro-ducer of the film; Penny Acheson, another volunteer, Audrey Kuramoto and Nate Gyotoku, employees of the JCCH.

One story Les mentioned was at an internment camp in December 1942, a Sgt. Lancelot Moran pur-chased Christmas cards and postage stamp for everyone

at the internment camp so they could write to their loved ones for Christmas and every-one was so appreciative of Sgt. Moran’s kindness. It was their best Christmas!

They brought with them copies of the DVD as well as books that were available at the JCCH. They encouraged everyone to visit the JCCH and see the display on the Internment as well as Okagesama de.

Do you know of any students or adults who are willing to perform at our Sunday Services? If you know of a student or an adult who can play a musical instrument, i.e. piano, ukulele, guitar, flute, etc., sing, dance the hula, ballet, Japanese dance, etc. and would like to perform at one of our Sunday Service, please contact Rev. Narashiba at 949-3995. We would like to see students

especially or any adult share their talents before Amida Buddha and our members.

Sharing one’s talents can be enlightening to every-one! We can all learn what a bassoon looks like and how it sounds, we can learn about

classical music, Hawaiian music, Japanese mu-sic, see and hear a shamisen, see and hear a koto, see and hear an ukulele, etc.

We can also learn about Hawaiian music through the hula. Hawaii is really a unique place. When students go to college outside of Hawaii, other students want to learn the hula or sing some Hawaiian songs or have a luau or want to know what is a luau!

In preparation for Bon Dance:

The Honolulu Jodo Shu Fujinkai is looking for manpower for Bon Dance. Most of the ladies of the Fujinkai are in their 70s, 80s and 90s and when the sun goes down, they go home. We could use your help on the day of the Bon Dance, Friday and Saturday August 19 and 20 in the mornings and early after-noon for cutting vegetables for yaki soba, stuffing sushi rice into inari cones and packaging them for sale, assist with maki

sushi, they also could use your help in lifting rice pots or helping wash dishes. In the evenings, your help would be needed to sell the products made or to help serve turkey jook yaki soba. Also, we will make oshi-zushi and also make variety packs of different sushi. This year new member Chinatsu Maeda is thinking of making gyoza for sale. Whatever time you can spare,

please call Sally Hayashi at the temple on weekends at 949-3995 or leave a message and she will call you back.

In order to make all these inari sushi on this page, it takes a lot of peo-ple stuffing and packaging them as well as cooking and cooling the rice, adding vinegar and vegetables. Your help is needed! Thank you.

YBA could use your help with screwing the delicious BQ meat! It takes a lot of people to screw BQ sticks. So if you have some time, please contact the Jodo Mis-sion office and leave your name that you are willing to help! They also can use some dish washers

during the evenings.

B o n D a n c e What do you think of Bon Dance - This is a time when family and friends get together to remember our ancestors, dance to the music of the Taiko drums and eat delicious foods!

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Haleiwa Bon Dance: July 8 and 9, 2016. We are ordering a van to go to

Haleiwa on Saturday, July 9, leaving Jodo Mission of Hawaii at 4:00 p.m. and leaving Haleiwa at 11:00 p.m. to return to Jodo Mis-sion of Hawaii. Please contact Jodo Mission 949-3995 if you wish to ride the .bus. Jodo Mission members will be given first priority. Others on a first come, first serve basis. Thank you.

HOLD MEMORIAL SERVICES for Your Loved Ones’ Date of Passing

In Buddhism, memorial services are observed on the date of passing, which comes every year, and at the anniversaries, which come every 4-6 years (please refer to the chart of anniversaries as posted on the right). At the memorial services, the family offers flowers, food and incense to Amida Buddha and their loved ones. Of course these offer-ings are meritorious, but it is most required that the family willingly recite “Namu Amida Butsu (I take refuge in Amida Buddha)” bear-ing sincerity toward the deceased person. It is an opportunity for the family to honor the deceased person as well as to clarify the meaning of their lives, by learning the imper-manent nature of life and appreciating the link of lives of their ancestors. Services can be observed at Jodo Mission of Hawaii or at your home altar.

ANNIVERSARIES –2016

Anniversaries Year of Passing

1st year 2015 3rd 2014 7th 2010 13th 2004 17th 2000 23rd 1994 25th 1992 27th 1990 33rd 1984 37th 1980 43rd 1974 47th 1970 50th 1967 100th 1917

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Father’s Day at Jodo Mission As a special treat for Father’s Day, the members heard the performance by Sara Toma who is a fresh-man at Kalani High School and Rev.

Kanjun Nakano. Rev. Nakano explained that the violin is made out of wood and it has a varnish on it and it is the varnish that helps make the sounds. It is an instrument that comes from Italy.

Sara and Rev. Nakano practiced many times and their performance was excel-lent! Everyone enjoyed it. Above is a photo of Sara, her parents, Edward and Janet Toma, and Rev. Nakano.

After the performance, there was a delicious lunch prepared by the Fujinkai ladies: Sekihan musubi, ume and daikon leaf musubi, nishime, tsukemono, namasu, miso fried chicken, cherries, watermelon, jello dessert, zenzai (azuki beans with mochi). What a special luncheon! And what a special Father’s Day!

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.

Hanako Kume 100

Kimiko Hayashi 102

Francis Tadashi Higuchi 82

Amy Shizue Hasama 85

Kazuma O(gata 91

Wallace Itsuo Wasada 87

Esther Fusae Nishimura 99

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

1 Kichi Yanagisawa The Yanagisawa Family Yone Ishida Yoshikazu Kakimoto

2 Toyo Tojo The Tojo Family Tsune Uchiumi Minoru Shigeta Kikuyo Gonhata Ellen Kimiko Hedani Yuhei Kunimura

3 Tamayo Yanagihara Robert Yoshimura Akiko Tamaki

4 Setsuyo Sugihara (2) The Sugihara Family Sumiyo Yamanaka Kajo Teruya (2) Isami Yoshikawa The Yoshikawa Family The Yamanaka Family Masaru Taira

5 Asao Takara Shige Ikeda Fred Yutaka Sakuda Donna Haruko Furutani Hawayo Yamamoto

6 Takaichi Hamada The Hamada Family Miki Ajimura The Ajimura Family Takezo Ishida Yosuke Mitsutani

7 Hisa Akimoto Taki Ishimoto Seiji Ogawa Kenneth Tsugio Ito Richard Shunichi Yoshida

8 Yoshio Furumoto Kamado Takara Hiroshi Arakawa Sueko Kiyama Shigeko Shimamoto

9 Kameichi Okamura Matsuyo Kamioka Kumataro Gonhata Masashi Kimura

10 Tatsu Yanagihara The Yanagihara Family Shina Kaya The Kaya & Shimazaki Family Keizo Nagata The Nagata Family

Yojiro Yamashina Ukichi Nakano Fuji Kitagawa Reginald Takahiro Tengan

11 Toyo Nanbu The Nanbu Family Fusa Murakami (2) The Murakami Family The Yamamoto Family Shigeyo Ipponsugi Iwao Asaumi Nancy Yoshiko Ohara

12 Hideo Higashi Kamesaburo Gushiken Akiyo Yano Morio Yanagihara Toshiji Oka

13 Kazuichi Akimoto Bunji Aoki The Aoki Family Toki Yamamoto The Yamamoto Family Setsuyo Nitta Yai Ouchi Watanabe Sadako Asaumi 14 Takao Amano Kanichi Morita Fukutaro Nagata Haya Kamimura Kazuo Kamimura Kanichi Morita Kazue Ohara

15 The Nakagawa Family The Koike Family The Fujisue Family Doris Chiyoko Hayashi Florence Satoko Law

16 The Juichi Yamada Family The Fujii Family The Shikata Family The Nishii Family The Okazaki Family Haruo Okahara The Okahara Family R. Toyoji Tominaga Tetsuichi Umemoto

17 Ito Tanimura The Tanimura Family Kome Nishiguchi The Nishiguchi Family Takiko Amakawa Yumei Uyehara Tomoe Yoshioka Edwin Juichi Yagi

18 Hisako Fujihana The Fujihana Family Seiji Nakagawa Miyoji Aoki Masutaro Kunihisa Tokiyo Masaki Masaaki Maruichi Okiyo Matsumoto Matsu Sadoyama Kimiko Yamagata

19 Misae Higashihara Thomas Tamotsu Hamada

20 Gonshichi Shintaku Fukuji Ikeda Katsumi Imada Ayako Hibi

21 Shigeru Nakata Usuke Oda Kamekichi Toyofuku

22 Keisuke Kimura The Kimura Family Takeo Matsunaga Motohiro Tanimura Matsuyo Miyagi

23 June Junko Yamashita Keizo Oda Sadako Kishimoto

24 Masako Narahara

25 Matsuno Mishina The Mishina Family Masuo Yanagihara (2) The Yanagihara Family The Kimura Family The Weiss Family (Stillborn)

26 Naosuke Nakamoto The Nakamoto & Sakagawa Family Toshio Fujimoto The Fujimoto Family Pauline Aiko Nakamura

27 Sakutaro Koyama The Koyama Family Sayoko Takaoka Hatsu Maruichi Yoichiro Watanabe Yone Tarumoto

28 Koichi Ogi Sadamu Iwamoto Miyoko Ohara Darin Sueo Furutani

Fumiko Iwamoto

29 Kansuke Yano The Yano, Konaka & Hayashi Family Mitsuo Sakakibara Chiya Wada Koto Kunimura

30 Noriaki Masuda The Masuda & Asamura Family Kinosuke Kitamura The Kitamura Family Toshisuke Iwamoto Noriaki Masuda Matsuo Hirayasu Bishop Shutesu Miyamoto Shizue Ogomori Yetsuo Higa

31 Haruo Nakano Kameyo Hayashi Usano Yamane Katsumi Yano Evelyn Chieko Fujita Nobu Namba

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