Jodo Mission of Hawaii

Bulletin - MARCH 2017

(#1244-0317)

Jodo Mission of Hawaii 1429 Makiki St.

Honolulu HI 96814

Address Service Requested

SECURITY PURPOSES Sometime ago we mentioned that for security purposes, the front door of

the Jodo Mission of Hawaii office will be locked. We have had many instances

of intruders coming to the office and the temple and because of this we must

continue this practice.

In addition, we are now closing the outer door to the temple when there

are no services or when a service is being conducted and no one is in the of-

fice. This is being done for security purposes only and for the safety of our

ministers and staff. It is really ashamed that

churches, temples and houses of worship need

to worry about intruders.

If you have business in the office or want to

go to the Nokotsudo or Columbarium, please

do not hesitate to ring the doorbell and some-

one will be more than happy to unlock the door.

We apologize for this inconvenience. There

may be instances when no one is available, i.e.

minister is at a service; a sign is normally at the

front door when he will return. Also, if no one answers the door, please call

the office 949-3995. It could be that a service is being held and no one is in

the office.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

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GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING On Sunday, January 22, 2017, a General Membership Meeting was held. However,

only 14 members attended. According to our By-Laws, we needed to have at least 25

members present at our General Membership Meeting in order to make any changes to

our By-Laws. The changes needed to be made were mainly to reduce the quorum so the

Board of Directors can continue to make official decisions.

We are requesting, if possible, that all members of Jodo Mission of Hawaii attend the

next General Membership Meeting to be held on Sunday, March 26, 2017, at 10:45 a.m.,

after the Spring Higan Service. Your attendance is very important so please try to attend.

By-Laws Amendment to Jodo Mission of Hawaii: Revisions to consider are: 1) changing the quorum to the Board of Directors from not

less than 15 to not less than 5 nor more than 30 Directors to be elected biennially for 2

years; 2) Standing Committees to consist of not less than 5 to not less than 3 members,

all to be appointed by the President with the approval of the Board of Directors; and

3) Quorums at General Membership meetings, the presence of [25] to 15 members of the

Mission will constitute a quorum; and at Board of Directors meeting, the presence of [9] to

5 directors will constitute a quorum. PLEASE KEEP THIS DATE, WE WILL NEED YOUR

VOTE! Thank you.===================================================

Dedicat ion Board In preparation of the 125-year anniversary of Jodo Shu in Hawaii, we (your Board of

Directors) would like to honor the past and present members of Betsuin who have made

tremendous contributions toward Jodo Mission of Hawaii today.

As part of the pre celebration, we (your Board) felt it was time to honor selected

members by creating a JODO dedication board to be shared by all other members. These

selected members chosen have sacrificed many hours of adversity and success of build-

ing this organization.

Our other intent of presenting this honor board is to assure that the next and forth

coming generations will continue their legacy by attending services and church functions.

We all know that the original members are in the Pure Land or are all aged seniors and to

carry on their legacy we need to replace them with new ideas and goals. We cannot afford

to let their hard work be forgotten but be carried forward to the next generation.

Each selected member to the JODO dedication board will be engraved onto a brass

name plate which will be attached to the board covered by an outer clear glass plate

If you know of members who should be honored, please e-mail us at

jodo.honor@gmail.com with the name of the member and the contact person’s phone

number. The entry deadline will be March 24, 2017.

Arigato! Your Board of Directors.

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Membership Dues (Gojikai) REMINDER: If you have not paid your membership

dues ($60) this year, please be sure to do so by making your check payable to Jodo Mission of

Hawaii (mail to 1429 Makiki Street, Honolulu, HI 96814). Thank you.

Spring Higan Chutoba Form (彼岸会中塔婆申し込み用紙)

Your Name(お名前) : Phone（電話）: ______________

Name of Deceased （亡くなった方のお名前）：

1.

2.

3.

4.

One Chutoba is $7 X Total of Chutoba = Total $

（中塔婆1本7ドル） （本数） （合計）

Please make checks payable to “Jodo Mission of Hawaii”. DEADLINE: Tuesday, March 14, 2017

FOR OFFICE USE ONLY

Order accepted by Date accepted / / (In person/ Mail / By phone)

Received by Date paid / / (Cash/ Check # ) Write

Spring Higan-e Service

The word “Higan” literally means “the other shore” in Japanese. One shore represents this world which we are in, and the other shore “Higan” represents Amida Buddha’s Pure Land. The river represents the bad mind we all possess. The concept is that we practice the teaching to reach the other shore across the river.

We have two Higan seasons in a year. One in the spring, the other in autumn, as Higan is held during the week of the spring and autumn equinox. Shan Tao, one of the high ranking priests of Jodo Buddhism in China said that the sun sets due west during the equinox thus it is a good opportunity to think about Buddha’s Pure Land which exists far away in the west, as well as appreciate our ancestors who are also there.

Please join us in crossing the river to the other shore as we think about Buddha’s Pure Land and respect for our ancestors. Our Higan Service will be held:

Sunday, March 26 at 10 am

On that day, Chutoba prayers will be conducted during the service. If you request a Chutoba, please fill out the form on this page, and send it to or drop it off at the Jodo Mission office. One Chutoba is SEVEN dollars. Please make your check payable to “Jodo Mission of Hawaii.”

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Higan Service

March 26 at 10 a.m.

____ I plan to attend service

____ I do not plan to attend

SUNDAY GUEST SPEAKERS

Sunday, March 12, 2017 at 10 a.m.: “Sick of Being Sick, Get Healthy the Natural Way”. Terry Shintani, M.D. will be our guest speak-er. He is a well known preventive medicine doctor. “Imagine a society in which health improved so much that the need for medication was substantially reduced and the cost of health care declined and life span increased each year. Come and listen to Dr. Shintani talk about “Sick of Being Sick, Get Healthy the Natural Way”. ========================================================

Sunday, March 19, 2017 at 10 a.m.: “A Gift for Your Family: The Importance of Advance Care Planning”. Two nurses: Joy Kurihara, GNP (Geriatric Nurse Practitioner and volunteer speaker with Kokua Mau) and Patricia W. Nishimoto, DNS (Adult Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist at Tri-pler Army Medical Center and a volunteer speaker with Kokua Mau) will come to talk about conversations that involve the whole family regarding the one’s care wishes which eliminates the family stress. Families who have not heard the wishes of Mom or Dad or Grandfather or Grandmother, may have problems deciding what their wishes are whereas if you know their wishes, the wishes can be honored and family crisis can be prevented. Please bring your parents, grandparents, adult sons, daughters, friends to this interesting session. A follow-up session will be held on Sun-day, April 30, 2017 at 10 a.m. ========================================================

Sunday, January 29, 2017 at 10 a.m.: On Sunday, January 29, 2017, Jody Mishan of Hawaii Alzheimer’s Disease Initiative, UH Center on Aging, came to speak to us on “Brain Health”. This was a most interesting subject. She used the computer, projector

and screen and passed out a lot of reading material since we gave her 20 minutes to speak. Ms. Mishan indicated that not only is eating healthy, exercising, taking care of your health, getting enough sleep each night but it is important to learn new things and socialize with family, friends and the community. She indicated that it’s wonderful that people come to church each

Sunday and meet with other people. This interaction is important. This is all part of keeping our brain healthy.

======================================================== Guest Speakers: Please let us know if you like having these guest speak-ers. Someone suggested that we should get someone to talk about Wills & Trusts but that may be some time later. Page 4

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Shinnenkai—New Year’s Party At Jodo Mission of Hawaii’s Shinnenkai or New Year’s Party held on January 22, 2017, there were no Hyakusai members (100 year olds) who attended. Maybe next year. If you did not attend the New Year’s party, you missed a very nice party. There were lucky number priz-es, and of course BINGO game and wonderful prizes.

The food was delicious! Aki Nishiyama and the ladies did a wonderful job of nishime, miso tako, sushi, stuffed hasu, fried Mahimahi, fried chicken, gunlo mein, vegetable kamaboko tempura, potato salad and wonderful deserts! Jodo Mission normally invites the many instructors who teach classes at Jodo Mission. Clayton Naluai, the Aikido instructor in-vited one of his students to our New Year’s party. The student asked if he could be invited again next year because the food was so delicious and there

were foods on the buffet table that he never ate before but to be invited would depend on Mr. Naluai.

For entertainment we had koto playing by Sophie Narashiba and her instructor Darin Miyashiro and his wife Mika. Strider Parasso from our Sunday School sang with the koto playing background.

Thank you everyone who came to the New Year’s party. Please join us again next year for our annual New Year’s Party (it’s fun, lots of good food and you get to meet other members of Jodo Mission of Hawaii)!

Den Den Mushi Four students from Shukutoku University Panel Theater came to perform on Sunday, February 12, 2017. The group included Yumi Kato, Risa Katsuki, Tomomi Kuroe and Kana Sukegawa. After their visit to the Betsuin, they went to Maui and visited Lahaina, Wailuku and Kahului Jodo Missions. They also visited schools and care homes while on Maui. They told a wonderful story of the Komatsuna Japanese vegetable and how it got its name. See page 6 for more photos.

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 930am.

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

Den Den Mushi (cont’d)

Above is Risa and Kana on the left and Yu-mi and Tomomi on the right with Sophie and her friends who attended.

Below is a Komatsuna garden in Den Den Mushi’s story and also a photo of what Komatsuna Japanese vegetable looks like.

They also darkened the room and did

some songs in the dark. Den Den Mushi thank you for coming to Betsuin and we look for-ward to your next visit next year!

Perpetual Memorial Service (Eitaikyo) for March

1. Fusa Sato The Sato & Suzuki Families The Matsushita Family 2. Kazuo Ishizaki Haruo Shigeoka Masao Hayashida Setsuko Tsuda 3 Hideo Shoji The Shoji Family Yoshima Takabayashi (2) The Nanbara Family The Tanigawa, Hirano,& ’ Hisano Family The Namba Family 4. Kuma Tabata Mume Yamamoto Kuni Ishikawa 5. Matsue Nakamura Yukio Hisamoto The Hayashi Family Toshisuke Terada Margaret Chieko Iwamoto Sadae Kanehira Shigeno Toyofuku 6. Bishop Enjo Ito Hideo Kubota Kaoru Kusunoki Chiyo Iwamoto Tsugio Aoki (2) Ruiko Kaita 7. Kiku Yagi The Yagi Family Makoto Tanaka The Tanaka Family Hiromu Higa The Higa Family Kikue Tanaka The Tanaka Family Kenichi Kinoshita Masao Hashimoto Hideo Sugihara The Sugihara Family Kamado Taira Kenneth Kazuo Miyoshi 8. Hatsuno Daitoku The Daitoku & Fujimoto Family Yoshi Imamoto The Iwamoto & Kawakami Family Gisaburo Kawamura The Kawamura Family Satoru Takitani Tadao Yoshimoto 9. Sumie Chikamoto The Ota Family Seiichi Takaoka Masao Watanabe Gohichi Hifumi Sam Takaoka Toshikado Kimura Sadao Kishimoto Sumiye Kimura Nomiyama

10. Chotaro Fujise Fujise & Kobayashi Family

Fushi Shintaku The Isogai Family

Harriet Nomiyama De St. Martin 11. Seikichi Teramoto The Teramoto Family

Mami Kumagaya Shizuko Kubota Yoshiko Oshiro Ono Iwamoto Kazue Kishida

12. Taikichi Yamane Clara Asami Tominaga Ruth Chieko Sakuda

13. Benshiro Tanimura

The Tanimura Family Kunisuke Higashimura Mume Yanagihara Seitaro Komiya Tetsumi Fujimoto (2) Rui Hara The Hara Family Fujino Imada Barney Rio Hiroshi Higaki Kathleen Kazuko Yoshimoto

14. Eijiro Hara Satoshi Shinagawa Yuku Nakamura

15. Hachizo Aoki The Aoki & Kimura Family Naoyuki Hara Hara Family Asajiro Asai Omoyo Nagano The Nagano Family Hajime Aoyama Harunori Ohara Suematsu Namba

16. Hanako Kanehira The Kanehira Family Shigeo Sakuda (2) Chizuko Yasumoto Masato Kawano Robert Katsuhiko Sumida Kikutsuchi Tarumoto Calvin Sakae Murashige

17. Seiichi Yanagihara The Yanagihara Family Tadako Kunimoto Kunimoto & Nago Family Edwin Seimu Matsumori(2) Mieko Nomiyama Tsuchiyo Fujimoto Tokuichi Ohara

18. Moyo Iwamoto Matsuyo Hamada Inouye Eisaku Asaumi Shuzo Saiki George Aoki Hisayo Kawaoka

19. Umeki Matsumori

The Matsumori Family Tsuru Fukuda Ototsuchi Yamanaka Yamanaka Family Ikuzo Kuniyuki Yoshinobu Yamato

20. Ichiyuki Mizuno The Mizuno & Ohta Family Asakichi Iwamoto Iwamoto Family Zennoshin Yoshioka Rikiichi Yagi

21. Masuji Kajioka

The Kajioka & Morita Family Shima Nakagawa The Nakagawa Family Bishop Shinjun Shimizu Gonsuke Nakahara

22. Asano Fujikami The Fujikami Family Suegusu Matsuo The Matsuo Family Ishi Onaga The Onaga & Nakamura Family Heijiro Furumoto Ito Nakamoto Rev. Shutetsu Uenoyama Chiyoko Umezu Yoshikata Hayashi Jean Yachiyo Soma Baba 23. Miko Kawano The Kawano Family Kazu Nakai The Nakai Family Midori Uno Sadami Suehisa George Choji Miyagawa Bishop Dwight Ryokan Nakamura Tomo Horiuchi 24. Rikuo Masuoka The Masuoka Family Hanako Yanagihara Torae Miyao Shigeki Hirono 25. Chiyo Nishimura The Nishimura Family Kimie Umemoto (2) The Umemoto Family Tetsubei Ishimoto The Ishimoto & Akimoto Family Nobuo Nakamoto The Nakamoto Family Kichizo & Kikue Miura Shizuno Uyehara Mizuko Sankichi Umemoto Suyekichi Watanabe 26. Yukiko Takeda The Takeda Family

Satoru Iguchi Giichi Hayashi Stephen Toshiichi Kotake Howard Masuji Tasaka Kiyo Ota 27. Yukitsuchi Morikawa The Morikawa Family Kiyoe Kakehashi Asae Okamura 29. Muta Chinen (2) Satoshi Ukeda Shizuno Ebisuzaki 30. Bishop Shinko Nakajima Setsu Yamamoto Betsy Yoshiko Kubota Kikuyo Lila Uyeharu Betty Sun Ogata 31. Kamenosuke Kinoshita The Kinoshita Family Aki Fukuda The Fukuda Family Nao Fujita The Fujita Family The Nakamura Family

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of the following members

who have recently left this

world for the Pure Land.

Edwin Hayato

Teruya 56

Chris Kaichi

Hirohama 91

Gilbert Hideo

Otani 90

Gladys Mitsue

Yoshimoto 92

Helen Fusaye

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