Jodo Mission of Hawaii

Bulletin - MAY 2014

(#1210-0514)

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

2014 BON DANCE SCHEDULE OF JODO SHU TEMPLES

Island Temple Phone No. Dates Times

Oahu Betsuin 949-3995 Aug 15 to 16 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Haleiwa 637-4382 July 18 to 19 7/26: 8 pm – 10 pm

7/27: 8 pm – 11 pm

Big Island [Hawaii]

Kurtistown

Call Rev. Miyazaki

(808) 935-6996

August 2 8:00 pm

Hilo July 19 to 20 7/12: 7:30 pm

7/13: 8:00 pm

Hakalau August 16 8:00 pm

Hamakua

Call Rev. Wansa

(808) 775-0965

August 9 6:30 pm

Kohala July 12 6:30 pm

Hawi August 2 6:30 pm

Maui Kahului Call Rev. John Hara

(808) 244-0066

August 9 7:00 pm

Wailuku June 20 7:00 pm

Lahaina (808) 661-4304 July 4 to 5 7:00 pm

Kapaa (808) 822-4319 June 6 to 7 7:30 pm Kauai

Koloa (808) 742-6735 July 18 to 19 7:30 pm

Volunteer Office Worker Needed

We are in need of a volunteer office worker from June 1,

2014 to July 8, 2014 from 9 am to 2 pm on either Mondays or

Fridays. Duties include: answering the telephone, receiving reser-

vations for memorial services, taking messages, collecting pay-

ments, answering the Nokotsudo or Columbarium buzzer to let

someone in to visit the Nokotsudo. It is quite interesting. You get

to meet all kinds of people and at the same time, you will learn a lot

about Jodo Mission and Jodo Shu.

In preparation for the O-Bon season, the O-Tobas

need to be written and the minister needs to concentrate

on the O-Toba he is working on so having someone an-

swer the telephone while the minister is writing an

O-Toba or doing a memorial service or getting ready

for a funeral would be greatly appreciated. If you

are interested, please contact Rev. Narashiba

at 949-3995.

Getting Ready for O-Bon:

Many of you have signed up

for your O-Toba. Now, it may be time to think about

what you will offer at your

O-Toba.

Please share your family’s tradi-

tion regarding the O-Toba. There are

some families who probably coordi-

nate what they are bringing and what

type of container they are using. Some are so neatly stacked when so

many families come to the same O-

Toba. We would like to hear from

you. Thank you.

Special Needs: For those who do

not want to climb many stairs, see

below:

Elevator: Please note that we

do have an elevator which is located

on the seaside of the Temple. Please

ring the bell at the back door of the

Temple for assistance.

Service in Ikoi Hall: If you

would like to have your service on the first floor, you may do so by request-

ing the service be held in Ikoi Hall in-

stead of walking up the stairs.

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Guest Speakers

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Jodo Mission of Hawaii has been very fortunate for two Sundays

in a row to have such distinguished guests as speakers.

On Sunday, April 6, 2014, the Hawaii Buddhist Council cele-

brated Shakyamuni Buddha’s Birthday with a Buddha Day Service

or sometimes referred to as Hanamatsuri Service. Dr. George

Tanabe, the professor emeritus of religion was the guest speaker.

At this service there were members from seven denominations of

Buddhist temples: Higashi Honwanji Mission, Honpa Hongwanji mission, Jodo Mission of

Hawaii, Koyasan Shingon Mission, Nichiren Mission of Hawaii, Soto Mission of Hawaii and

Tendai Mission of Hawaii. There were offerings of flowers made by each denomination.

Then it was time for Dr. Tanabe who spoke on “How Old Is The Buddha?” He talked about

the denominational Buddhism which is declining because of the declining membership and

the changing of times from the plantation days to present. However the popularity of tradi-

tional Buddhism should be noted. Traditional Buddhism can be traced back to Shakyamuni

Buddha. He said try searching the internet for “mindfulness’ and you will find many, many,

many hits. He ended his talk with “how old is the Buddha?” The answer is as old as you

are! We will continue in future Bulletins to cover “mindfulness” which is said to improve

one’s well being, physical health, and mental health.

On Sunday April 13, we were so happy to have as our guest speaker, Audrey Emiko

Kitagawa, who was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii and who is the

daughter of long time Jodo Shu member Yoshiko Kitagawa. Ms. Kitagawa

is a cum laude graduate of the University of Southern California and a grad-

uate of Boston College Law School. After practicing law for twenty years,

she retired and is now President and Founder of the International Academy

for Transcultural Cooperation, President of the Light of Awareness Interna-

tional Spiritual Family. She lives in New York is involved in many world-

wide organizations.

It is just amazing how her Spiritual Family here in Hawaii came to the temple the week

before her arrival and started cleaning the windows and making sure everything was just right

when she arrived. So many of her Spiritual Family came to support her and it was just so

nice to see so many people at our temple. Some members could

not find parking and decided to go home. They missed out on a

wonderful talk by Ms. Kitagawa who began her talk by paying

tribute to her mother who turned 95 the day after. Ms. Kitagawa

showed 2 very short videos showing some of the places she has

traveled over the years, a good will ambassador doing good deeds.

At the end of her talk she had singer Alan Fisher play the piano

and sing Happy Birthday and Sweet (Leilani) “Yoshiko” her mom.

Everyone was treated to a book entitled “Learning in the Light” and to a wonderful lunch.

So many of Ms. Kitagawa’s friends showed up, including Rev. Irene Matsumoto of Palolo

Kwannon Temple (pictured in the photo above next to Yoshiko Kitagawa).

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Mini Concert by former

students of Rev. Kanjun

Nakano. As part of the Buddha

Day Service, three former students

of Rev. Nakano came to Hawaii

from Japan: Hitomi Kawase

(extreme right in photo) and Mayumi

Tanaka (extreme left on photo) both

played the piano in duet. The sing-

er of the group is Yasuyo Sugino

(in center with Rev. Nakano). All three

were so professional! Rev. Nakano

is so proud of them. Hope they

will come back again!

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Photos from Buddha Day Service

The Honpa Hongwanji Betsuin Choir with guest

speaker Dr. George

Tanabe in the last row to

the right and Choir Pia-nist Francis Okano is also

in the last row. Choir

Conductor Mari Muraka-mi is missing from this

photo. Also to the left

are Hitomi, Mayumi and Yatsuyo, although

Yatsuyo face is blacked.

Pouring sweet tea over

Baby Buddha is one of the

first thing one does at Bud-

dha Day Service

Bishop Ryokan Ara (HBC President) was the

Officiant at this service.

Everyone is listening to Dr. George Tanabe

Collection of Offertory—the volunteer students from

Punahou High School helped collect offerings.

A n n o u n c e m e n t s

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May 11th Is Mother’s Day

(Haha No Hi)

Mother’s Day is celebrated as an expres-

sion of love and appreciation to mothers.

Please come to our Mother’s Day Service

on May 11 at 10:00 a.m.

Flowers Needed for Lei Making

on Friday, May 23, 2014

Please bring Plumeria or other small flow-

ers for leis to Jodo Mission on Thursday,

May 22, 2014.

Everyone is invited to

join us on May 23, 2014

beginning at 8 am for our

Memorial Day lei making

project. Please come and

help us sew leis for our veterans at Punchbowl

Cemetery. Lunch will be provided.

Children’s Day (May 5)

In Japan, since 1948, May 5 has

been a national holiday known

as “Children’s Day” or

“Kodomo no hi”. This national

holiday in Japan was decreed to

celebrate the happiness, health

and growth of all children.

Most notable are carp

shaped streamers. The

carp was chosen because

it symbolizes strength

and success and accord-

ing to Chinese legend, a

carp swam upstream to

become a dragon. Children’s Day

around the world.

Service Project by Punahou Students

This year Jodo Mission was fortunate in having

eight students from Punahou High School choose

Jodo Mission for their service project to the com-

munity. The four girls below (Katelyn, Jodi,

Talia and Joy) came to our Buddha Day Service

and helped by folding programs to be passed out,

passed out programs, collected money for the

offertory, took many, many photos of our Buddha

Day Program, so much so they would like to do a

blog on the internet of our Buddha Day Service.

At the time this Bulletin went to press, specifics of

this blog was not known and we will pass the in-

formation in our next Bulletin. We appreciated

their help at the Buddha Day Service and at the

same time they learned that there is a day to cele-

brate when Buddha was born. Because they

learned so much,

hopefully they will

return or tell others

about this.

Photos to the right

are Andrea and

Odilia and Harri-

son and Kieko who

came to do some

yard work. Kieko is the granddaughter of long time

members Robert and Barbara Ashimine.

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.

Yoshinobu Yamato 90

Harry Kyoichi Kishii 89

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

Rev. Dwight

Nakamura Retired Minister

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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 dur-ing the morning service. The prayers will contin-ue each year for as long as Jodo Mission ex-ists. 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 8:30am.

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.

Bishop Gensho Hara Lahaina, Maui

Hawaii Buddhist Council’s

Memorial Day Service

Everyone is cordially invited to the

Memorial Day Service, sponsored by the

Hawaii Buddhist Council:

When: Monday, May 19

at 9:00 a.m.

Where: Punchbowl Cemetery

Hawaii Buddhist Council is made up of seven (7)

Buddhist denominations: Higashi Hongwanji

Mission of Hawaii, Honpa Hongwanji Mission of

Hawaii, Jodo Mission of Hawaii, Koyasan Shingon

Mission of Hawaii, Nichiren Mission of Hawaii,

Soto Mission of Hawaii and Tendai Mission of

Hawaii.

Hanamatsuri blog set up by

Punahou students is at http://hanamatsuri.blogspot.com/

1 Tome Iwamoto

Tome Toishigawa

2 Bishop Buntetsu Miyamoto Etsuo Nakagawa

3 Mitsuyo Nakahara The Fukunaga Family Mitsuko Sakai

Carol Masako Yano

4 Eikichi Hirouji The Miyamasu Family Tamotsu Takaoka

Toshio Yoshioka James M. Uesugi

5 Sadaichi Mito

The Mito Family Michie Makino The Makino & Okamura Family

Morita Kokubun

6 Tokusaburo Fukuda (2) The Fukuda Family (2)

Tora Kanayama (2) The Kanayama Family Hitoshi Nitta

Kamato Uyehara Tamayo Matsumori Laurie T. Cho

Kazuo Karimoto Kuma Tatei Masaru Morimoto

7 Minetaro Katagiri The Katagiri & Imamiya Family Tsuyako Kishii

Kiyoshi Hirano Satoru Miura

8 Toshiko Kusunoki Tami Kawasaki The Kusunoki Family

Tsuru Kitamura The Kawasaki & Nakagawa Family Yasuo Kagihara

The Kitamura Family Seki Tamura

10 Sada Kurihara The Kurihara Family The Ajimura Family

The Ito Family (Stillborn) Shinichi Takenouchi

11 Masataka Fukuda

The Fukuda Family Shuzo Mitsutani The Mitsutani Family

Ayataro Nanbu The Nanbu Family Kimiko Fujii

Kikuyo Hayashi Kinuyo Matsui Matsuichi Onaga

12 Konosuke Tsuda

The Tsuda Family Kimie Takaoka Mieko Takara

Yasu Ogi Kenji Otani Kikuye Okamura

13 Konzo Nakai

The Nakai Family Hikoichi Hirai The Hirai Family

Moushi Uehara Teruo Sawamura Fumiko Yogi

Kenichi Hayashi Teruo Sawamura The Sawamura Family

Betty Oshita Katsutoshi Kano

14 Kiku Miyashige

The Goto Family The Miyashige Family Fui Yamato

The Yamato Family Toshio Karamatsu Kiku Matsumoto

Kura Harada Shinichi Yanagihara Mitsuko Takemoto

16 Kamekichi Hayashi The Hayashi Family Kozo Okamoto Peggy Miyako Ogi

17 Hiromu Hayashi Wallace Kazuyo Sakai Helen Miyoko Fujikami Tamashiro

Hanako Thelma Ogawa

18 Hatsuyo Yamamoto The Yamamoto Family

Tadami Uemoto Chizuko Koto Haru Shimizu

The Kawabe Family The Mitsujiro Kurashige Family Kiyoshi Narahara

Kayoko Miyamoto Toshiko Yamanaka

19 Kamechiyo Uyehara

Fumio Fujiwara 20 Sukeo Matsuno

The Matsuno Family Hatsue Tsuda The Tsuda Family

Kamei Akamine Haruyo Iwamoto Koan Takara

Benzo Takahashi

21 Fuji Yamamoto The Yamamoto Family

Shigeko Fujikami The Fujikami Family

22 Tsunekichi Tamanaha

The Tamanaha Family Masuo Tomita Haruo Nakagawa Howard Seishi Kobayashi

23 Hichizo Nishimura (2) The Nishimura & Aoki Family Harukichi Hirohama

The Hirohama Family Ishi Onaga The Onaga & Nakamura Family

The Nakamura Family

Tomoko Hayashi Kenzo Hashimoto

24 Zensuke Yokomichi The Yokomichi & Kondo Family Kaizo Goto (2)

The Goto & Miyashige Family Kichizo Yamamoto The Yamamoto Family

Takeji Ogata Kiseno Nakano Satsuki Nakano

Kamazo Teruya Natsu Muramoto

25 Keiichi Mineishi

The Mineishi Family Kazuo Shidaki The Shidaki Family

Yoshio Nishimura Shinsuke Uchiumi Minoru Yamane

Yonosuke Ikuta The Takasawa Family Jiroichi Otani

26 Senkichi Fukuda

The Fukuda Family Fukuji Muranaka Rikio Kunihisa

Mitsuki Kimoto Toshiko Higa

27 Kichi Hisamura

Torakichi Miyao Takashi Saiki

28 Iro Yamane

Misao Yasuda Shuso Gushikuma Shurei Gushikuma

Kamaru Gushikuma Kama Gushikuma

29 Mayo Yamamoto

The Yamamoto & Suzukawa Family Yazaburo Shoji The Shoji Family

Joji Sakaguchi Tomiko Yamanaka Haruo Kito

The Kito Family Hatsuko Toishigawa Sumie Ito

30 Tamezo Yanagihara The Yanagihara Family Heikichi Ichida

The Ichida Family Setsu Yamamoto Mackay Umeichi Yanagisawa

Tsunejiro Iwamoto Yoshiko Moritsugu

31 Hideo Kuniyuki Ichiro Obara

Tahei Harada

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