Jodo Mission of Hawaii

Bulletin - SEPTEMBER 2016

Jodo Mission of Hawaii 1429 Makiki St.

Honolulu HI 96814

Address Service Requested

(#1238-0916)

Bazaar Collection

Jodo Mission of Hawaii’s Bazaar will be held on Sun-day, October 16. 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. Jo-do Mission will not pick up your donations. Thank you for your understanding. Please note that what you may call “junk” may be another person’s “pot of gold”.

If you have a lot of fruits and vegetables that you would like to share, please bring them to the temple on Saturday, October 15.

Also please bring your plants that you want to do-nate to the temple on Saturday, October 15.

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September 11—Keiro Kai and Grandparents’ Day

The Intermediate YBA and Sunday School will honor our Keiro mem-bers (all those 80 years old and old-er) on Sunday, September 11, 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!

Guest Speaker on October 2, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. Rev. Takamasa Yamamura

Please come to Jodo Mission of Hawaii’s Sunday Service on October 2, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. to listen to our guest speaker, Rev. Takamasa Yamamura. Rev. Yamamura is a Nichiren minister from the Honolulu Miyohoji Temple. Rev. Yamamura is also known as the “singing minister”. After Rev. Yamamura’s talk, there is a plan to have a sushi bar so please mark your calendar for October 2, 2016 at 10:00 a.m.

September 25 O-Higan Service

Fujinkai ladies will be making and selling Ohagi (mochi rice in-side and azuki beans outside) to those who come to Sunday Service on September 25 at 10:00 a.m.

If you are interested to help make ohagi, please contact the office and leave your contact information.

Above is photo of table decoration at 2015 Keiro Kai

BON DANCE (August 19-20, 2016) THANK YOU, THANK YOU to everyone who helped with our Bon Dance on

August 19-20, 2016. It takes a lot of people working many hours planning for a successful event, shopping for all the necessary things, arranging for volunteers to help, pub-licizing the event, etc.

All your efforts have not been forgotten. We truly

appreciate the tremendous support we received from our members, relatives and friends. It is with everyone’s help that we can contin-ue to do this event. Without someone arranging with the bon dance leaders for this event, someone setting up the yagura, arranging for the stairway so the singers and tai-ko drummers can get on top of the yagura, having the lighting set up, someone setting up chairs so people could sit down and watch the dancers dance around the yagura, someone selling the omamoris, bon dance towels, happi coats, kimonos, parking at-tendants from the Kiwanis Club, making and selling andagis (Okinawan donuts), someone making and selling the wonder-ful Jodo Mission special shaved ice, someone making and selling musubis, spam musubis, someone making and selling chichi dango and gau, someone ordering and selling saimin, someone making and selling grilled BBQ sticks, grilled ham-burgers, someone making and selling various sushi, namasu, turkey jook, yaki soba, someone making and selling gyoza, someone making and selling hot dogs, chili and rice, someone washing dishes, more dishes and more dishes, someone mak-ing 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. Thank you to the taiko group Dragon Beat which began each day of the Bon Dance with wonderful spirit! Did you see the little children in this group? Some were as tall as the taiko drum they were drumming. See photo to the left.

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Craft sellers led by Doris Soma (center with lei), Anne Jinbo and Harue Maki

Jizosama prayer before Bon Dance begins.

Bon Dance Photos

Our social hall is filled with people/dancers eating early before the /Bon Dance begins to gain some energy!

As the sun goes down, the early eaters get choice selection of food and hapi coats

Gyoza was a hit with long lines.

Happy andagi makers

This special lady is Akiko Nishiyama who cooked for all the volunteers who helped on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. As you can see from this photo, she even washed some dishes! From all those who ate your lunch and dinners, THANK YOU for all the delicious meals!

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We hope everyone had time to catch up with old friends, made new friends, got together with their relatives! That is great! Wasn’t the food great and the prices great! We understand that some people were disappointed that certain food items were sold out and we apologize for that however part of the problem is manpower so for all those people who want to help, please let us know for next year!

Thank you especially to everyone who came to our Bon Dance. Hope you had a good time eating good food, meeting old friends, and meeting new friends. ARIGATO AND SEE YOU AGAIN NEXT YEAR! Tell your friends what a wonderful time it was—good food, good friends, lots of dancing!

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）：

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, Sept 13, 2016

FOR OFFICE USE ONLY

Order accepted by Date accepted / /2016 (In person/ Mail / By phone)

Received by Date paid: ________/______/2016 (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 Buddha’s Pure Land which exists far away in the west, as well as appreciate our ancestors 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 25 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 Tuesday, September 13th. Thank you.

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Higan Service September 25 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 sin-

cere condolences to the family members and

loved ones of the following members who have

recently left this world for the Pure Land.

Myrtle Morita Nanbara 95

Edwin Kyoichiro Arakaki 94

Judy Keiko Chow 71

Carol Chie Yanagihara 93

Nora Ueda Ng 88

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

Bishop Gensho Hara Lahaina, Maui

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 dur-ing the morning service. The prayers will contin-ue 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 welcome you to attend the morning service at 9:30 am.

How to apply

Stop by the office, and fill out the application form. Each name costs $200. After the applica-tion is accepted, the name will be listed on the record.

Amida Buddha Statue Has Returned from Japan

On Sunday, September 11, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. we will have a dedication service to welcome back our Amida Buddha statue. Please come to our Sunday Service

More Bon Dance photos: Yukari Na-rashiba and Makoh Nii had fun selling tur-key jook, yaki soba and vari-ous sushi

EITAIKYO (Perpetual Memorial Service) for September

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1. Seijiro Mitsuyasu The Mitsuyasu Family Takao Nishimura The Nishimura Family Kamado Gushikuma Mary Fujie Takimoto 2. Kiku Sugimoto The Sugimoto & Samoto Family Yutaro Karamatsu The Karamatsu Family Kiku Kusunoki The Kusunoki Family Minbunosuke Sakuda 3. Eikichi Nakamoto The Okamoto & Nakamoto Family Reverend Hoyu Ohta The Ohta Family Katsume Kuniyuki Tetsuji Tamura 4. Shizuko Morita Kikuno Mitsutani Burt Nobuo Yoshida Eisuke Tamura Hoichi Ogawa 5. Kikuyo Iwamoto Shigeki Hayashi Yuriko Naito 6. Toramatsu Yamamoto Kamekichi Shigeoka Suteno Yoshida Masaichi Toishigawa Kichigoro Ikeda Yukimi Okada 7. Nobuo Hara 8. Suke Muranaka The Muranaka Family Higashi Tojo The Tojo Family Toshiko Judy Yanagihara 9. Mitsue Shigeoka Shunsuke Ogi The Ogi Family Shigeru Takeda Yone Wakayama Umeda Masako Koyama 10. Ritsu Inada (2) The Inada Family (2) The Morimoto Family Tsune Kuniyuki Shimo Hashimoto Sana Tamura Yukie Sakaue 11. Yorizo Yamane The Yamane Family The Harada Family Ikuzo Kuniyuki Nobuo Tsuda Mike Shigeo Hara 12. Junji Sano

The Nishimoto Family Sada Hayashi The Hayashi Family Masao Fukuzawa Tsuneyasu Tamanaha Umeyo Ohta Taeko Stella Uehara 13. Kigoro Takada The Takada Family Kumayo Nomura The Nomura Family Yoshio Kawakami Yasuichi Moritsugu The Henry Hijii Family Tatsui Oshita 14. Matsu Ohta Kikuzuchi Takaoka Toshio Mitani Frances Tomi Yano 15. Umeyo Nishimura The Nishimura Family Ishi Yagi The Yagi & Okada Family Takeji Ohara Masaji Kawasugi Shizue Masuda Yuji Yokoyama Ayako Nakata James Hajime Koike 16. Shigenori Uesugi 17. Okaji Hashimoto The Hashimoto Family Fujie Nomiyama Tomio Machida 18 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 19. Kichijuro Miyashige The Goto & Miyashige Family Seitoku Higa The Weiss Family The Sunagawa Family Fusae Ippongi 20. Shoichi Ishida The Ishida & Aimoto Family The Iwamoto’s Baby The Iwamoto Family Kiyoko Isobe 21, Kumanoshin Yamamoto (2) Yoshiko Nakahara (2) Wanda Akemi Hamada 22. Miyo Koyama

The Koyama Family Keikichi Mishina The Mishina Family Kame Higa The Higa Family Ruth Yoshiko Medeiros Tsuchitaro Iwamoto Eleanor Haruko Nose Shigeko Machida 23. Kiyoshi Matsushita The Matsushita Family Yoshiaki Ono The Ono & Yamada Family Yoshio Uchiumi Riichi Hirouji 24. Ryuichi Hamada The Hamada Family The Sakauye Family Shieto Saiki Aya Asaumi Noboru Sakauye 25. Haruyo Yanagihara Kamematsu Onohara Mitsuru Harada 26. The Nishimura’s Baby 27. Seiichi Tanaka The Tanaka & Takahashi Family Hakuyo Ebisuzaki (2) Goro Shindo 28. Kimi Morita The Morita & Ashinaka Family Natsue Hayashi The Hayashi Family 29. 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 30. Francis Kiyoshi Furutani Charles Tanaka Jean Miyoko Higaki George Giichi Ohara

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