Jodo Mission of Hawaii

Bulletin - SEPTEMBER 2013

Jodo Mission of Hawaii 1429 Makiki St.

Honolulu HI 96814

Address Service Requested

(#1202-0913)

September 8—Keiro Kai and Grandparents’ Day

The Intermediate YBA and Sunday School will honor our Keiro members (all those 80

years old and older) on Sunday, September 8, at 10 a.m. Please join us if you are able to

come. Also, younger generation, please bring your parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles

who are 80 years and older to join this event! It will be a special treat for them!

Collecting Donations for Bazaar

Our Bazaar will be held on Sunday, October 27. If you

have any donations, please bring them to the Temple!

Please separate your donations by categories (clothing, kitchen utensils and dishes, toys, trinkets, books) and please

mark the categories. Jodo Mission will not pick up your do-

nations. Thank you for your understanding.

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Parking Lot Has Been Repaved!

Please come and see our newly repaved parking lot! After 30 years, the parking lot is again like new! No more pot holes! There was a lot of time and effort and of course money involved in having the parking lot re-paved. Pacific International Paving, Ltd. did the paving. Special thank you to Elizabeth Karimoto of Blue Sky Realty who coordinated all the apartment renters with the special scheduling, i.e. where and when parking was available. Also, thank you to our neighbors, Shriners Hospital for Children and Hawai-ian Mission Academy for accommodating the apartment renters’ as well as our ministers’ vehicles when it was not possible to park on any part of the temple grounds. Thank

you also to Rev. Narashiba who was the contact person.

BON DANCE (August 16-17, 2013)

THANK YOU, THANK YOU to everyone who participated in our Bon Dance

held on August 16-17, 2013. There were so many, many people helping behind the scenes

and we really appreciate all your hard work. It is with everyone’s help that we can continue

to do this event. Without someone arranging with the bon dancers, getting the yagura up,

arranging for the stairway to get on top of the yagura, someone setting up chairs so people

could sit down, someone getting the omamoris, also someone selling omamoris, bon dance

towels, happi coats, kimonos, parking attendants, making and selling andagis (Okinawan do-

nuts), someone making and selling the Jodo Mission special shaved ice, someone making

and selling musubis, spam musubis, someone making and selling chichi dango, someone or-

dering and selling saimin, someone making and selling grilled BBQ sticks, someone making

and selling sushi, yaki soba, soba salad, pull pork sandwiches, someone making and selling

hot dogs, chili and rice, someone making and selling waffle dogs, hamburgers, someone

making sure that all the trash cans were not overflowing with trash, someone answering the

many questions people called about, including “how do I get to Jodo Mission?” or “where

can I park?”

Thank you also to the many, many dancers who came and had fun dancing. We could not

do it without you.

We hope everyone had time to catch up with old friends, made new friends, got together

with your relatives!!

Below, please find photos of some of those who participated in our Bon Dance.

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Jizo Bon Prayer: Our Jizo-sama statue has

returned from Japan and is repaired. It is so

nice to see it at the entrance to Jodo Mission

of Hawaii. Above is Bishop Gensho Hara

and Rev. Kanjun Nakano conducting the Jizo Bon Prayer with our Goeka group of

Tomoko Hisamoto, Sophie Narashiba and

Yukari Narashiba performing prior to the

opening of our Bon Dance. Please note they

are just under the beautiful bodhi tree with

their beautiful leaves

Yagura Set Up: Ian, Jo Ann, Henry,

Glenn, Rev. Narashiba, Rev. Nakano

and Rev. Watanabe

Yagura set up also means

setting up the lighting

system. Above Ian,

Ryan and Jo Ann find

the hole for the light pole. The light pole is in

place!

BON DANCE (August 16-17, 2013)

Traffic: Rev. Narashiba was

directing traffic to the Temple.

Directing traffic at Hawaii Mis-

sion were Burt and Ryan.

Taking a break are Megan and friend, both attending school in

Oregon (hope to see you next

year)!

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Dulcie Yano and her husband Alvin Yano

came from Kauai to help the YBA group in mak-

ing spam musubi, musubi, etc. Alvin’s sister was

Carol Yano who passed away early this year.

Each Bon Dance, Dulcie would travel from Kauai and together with Carol’s cousin Amy Yano, they

would help Carol with the YBA. This year

Carol’s brother Alvin also made the trip and

helped out a lot with the chili—you could see him

traveling with pans of chili from the kitchen to

the social hall. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

Come again next year!

Taiko Instructor Tsutomu Nakai and his stu-

dents performed before the dancing began. So

much talent!

Andagis (Okinawan donuts) are very deli-

cious! There are always long lines. Kay

Oshiro looks on as the Kawamura family

help fry andagis. Each year the Kawamura

family, Ono family, Masatsugu family and Yamauchi family come from Haleiwa to

help fry andagis. THANK YOU VERY

MUCH!

Faith Nekomoto comes each

year and helps Clifford at the

Choba table selling omamoris

and bon dance towels

Rocky Mishina came to help Clifford

at the Choba table. Jo Ann checked in with

Amy and Ralph getting

ready to sell saimin

Dancers going around the yagura.

Ryan Ozawa

paints with

steady hands

new date and

time on Bon Dance ban-

ner.

When the paint

dried, Ryan, Ian &

Burt put the banner

up, which was not

an easy task. They said they will do

better next year.

Thank you!

AUTUMN O-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）：

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2.

3.

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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: Sunday, September 15, 2013

FOR OFFICE USE ONLY

Order accepted by Date accepted / /2013 (In person/ Mail / By phone)

Received by Date paid: ________/______/2013 (Cash / Check #_____________) Write

O-HIGAN SERVICE The word “Higan” literally means “the other shore” in Japanese. One shore represents the world we are in, and the oth-er 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 spring, the oth-er in autumn, as Higan is held during the week of the spring and autumn equinox. Shan Tao, one of the highest 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 Bud-dha’s Pure Land which exists far away in the west, as well as appreciate our ances-tors who are also there.

Please join us for our Higan-e service and think about Amida Buddha’s Pure Land and our ancestors. Our Higan-e Service will be held:

Sunday, September 29 at 10:00 am

Chutoba prayers will be conducted during this service. If you would like a Chuto-ba prayer for your ancestors, please fill out the form on this page and send it or drop it

off at the Jodo Mission office by Sunday, September 15th. Thank you.

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Higan Service

September 29 at 10 a.m.

____ I plan to attend service

____ I do not plan to attend

O b i t u a r i e s

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.

Edna Mariko Sakuda 84

Seiki Nakayama 92

Jodo Mission Office Hours:

Monday to Saturday 8am—5pm

Sunday & Holidays

8am—3pm

Phone: 949-3995

Website: www.jodo.us

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Rev. Yubun Narashiba Head Minister

Rev. Kanjun Nakano Resident Minister

Rev. Dwight

Nakamura Retired Minister

Rev. Yasuhiro

Watanabe

Apology for August Eitaikyo List: We apologize

for not listing the following deceased person’s name:

8/11: Thomas Yoshiaki Shimizu

8/14 Shizuno Muraoka

More Bon Dance Photos:

Taiko Instructor Tsutomu Nakai and students

People enjoying the food and socializing with friends and

family before Bon Dance began.

Christine, Peggy, Kay, Susan, Lynn and Ed were selling

mochi, bentos, spam musubis, pull pork sandwiches, yaki soba,

soba salad, sushi (inari and maki sushi)

EITAIKYO (Perpetual Memorial Service) for September

Seijiro Mitsuyasu The Mitsuyasu Family Takao Nishimura The Nishimura Family Kamado Gushikuma Kiku Sugimoto The Sugimoto & Samoto Family Yutaro Karamatsu The Karamatsu Family Kiku Kusunoki The Kusunoki Family Minbunosuke Sakuda Eikichi Nakamoto The Okamoto & Nakamoto Family Reverend Hoyu Ohta The Ohta Family Katsume Kuniyuki Shizuko Morita Kikuno Mitsutani Nobuo Yoshida Eisuke Tamura Kikuyo Iwamoto Shigeki Hayashi Yuriko Naito Toramatsu Yamamoto Kamekichi Shigeoka Suteno Yoshida Masaichi Toishigawa Kichigoro Ikeda Suke Muranaka The Muranaka Family Higashi Tojo The Tojo Family Toshiko Judy Yanagihara Mitsue Shigeoka Shunsuke Ogi The Ogi Family Shigeru Taketa Yone Wakayama Umeda Masako Koyama Ritsu Inada (2) The Inada Family (2) The Morimoto Family Tsune Kuniyuki Shimo Hashimoto Sana Tamura Yukie Sakaue Yorizo Yamane TheYamane Family The Harada Family Ikuzo Kuniyuki Nobuo Tsuda Mike Shigeo Hara

Junji Sano The Nishimoto Family Sada Hayashi The Hayashi Family Masao Fukuzawa Tsuneyasu Tamanaha Umeyo Ohta Taeko Stella Uehara Kigoro Takada The Takada Family Kumayo Nomura The Nomura Family Yoshio Kawakami Yasuichi Moritsugu The Henry Hijii Family Matsu Ohta Kikuzuchi Takaoka Toshio Mitani Umeyo Nishimura The Nishimura Family Ishi Yagi The Yagi & Okada Family Takeji Ohara Masaji Kawasugi Shizue Masuda Yuji Yokoyama Ayako Nakata James Hajime Koike Shigenari Uesugi Okaji Hashimoto The Hashimoto Family

Fujie Nomiyama

Kinjuro Sugimoto The Sugimoto & Samoto Family

Take Kitagawa The Kitagawa Family Tameo Shinntani Kamejiro Uyeda

Hoichi Fujita The Fujita Family Mie Kashiwa Fumiko Yamane Nobuko Tsuruda

Kichijuro Miyashige The Goto & Miyashige Family

Seitoku Higa

The Weiss Family

The Sunagawa Family

Fusae Ippongi Shoichi Ishida The ishida & Aimoto Family The Iwamoto's Baby The Iwamoto Family

Kiyoko Isobe

Kumanoshin Yamamoto (2) Yoshiko Nakahara(2) Wanda Akemi Hamada Miyo Koyama The Koyama Family

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Tsuchitaro Iwamoto

Eleanor Haruko Nose

Kiyoshi Matsushita The Matsushita Family

Yoshiaki Ono The Ono & Yamada Family

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Shieto Saiki Aya Asaumi Haruyo Yanagihara

Kamematsu Onohara

Mitsuru Harada

The Nishimura's Baby

Seiichi Tanaka The Tanaka & Takahashi Family

Hakuyo Ebisuzaki (2) Goro Shindo

Kimi Morita The Morita & Ashinaka Family Natsue Hayashi The Hayashi Family

Kiku Tanimura The Tanimura Family

Ryosuke Yanagisawa The Yanagisawa Family

Ushi Shimabukuro

Akio Shimabukuro The Shimabukuro Family

Kiyo Yamachika The Yamachika & Matsushige Family

Ishi Uyenoyama

Yuu Kunihisa

Yoshiwa Tarumoto

Chieko Yamamura

Francis Kiyoshi Furutani

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