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B U D D H I S T C H U R C H O F O A K L A N D

BUSSHIN NOVEMBER 2008

Eitaikyo HoyoBY REVEREND SEIGEN YAMAOKA

VOLUME 51 NUMBER 11

The BCO Perpetual MemorialService (Eitaikyo Hoyo) will be

held on Sunday, November 16, 2008from 10 a.m. Rev. Yushi Mukojima,resident minister at the San DiegoBuddhist Temple will speak both inEnglish and Japanese.

The Eitaikyo Service is a Japaneseobservance to perpetuate the chantingof the Sutra for those who have gonebefore us. Donations given at the serv-ice will be place in the Eitaikyo Fundfor the purpose of the church’s future.This in turn assures that the pioneerswho have gone before will not be for-gotten.

As each generation comes intofocus, the past endeavors of personswho built the foundation for our reli-gious tradition become lost. True, wecannot truly know what they wentthrough; however, we do need to bemindful of the truth of their contribu-tions. This means that we mustendeavor to make sure, no matter howdifficult it may be, to assure the con-tinuance of the church.

I was once told by a past member,who was second generation. He toldme that his father would give to thechurch even if it meant that the familyhad to eat ochazuke and tsukemono(rice in tea with pickled vegetables)everyday. We would really be upset,but he kept on doing it. I didn’t under-stand it at that time, but now I reallyappreciate his determination to leaveus this beautiful church. I really feel

Minister’s Message 1

Omigaki 1

Mochi Tsuki 1

In Memoriam 2

Temple Tidbits 2

Eitaikyo Service 2

Ashland Howakai 2

Nippongo Gakuen News 3

Newsroom OBWA 3

Jr YBA News 4

Dharma School News 4

Shotsuki Memorial Service 6

Donations

Japanese Section

Calendar

IN THIS ISSUEbad that we gave him such a bad timebecause we were too young to know.So, I do the best I can to keep thechurch going.

The Eitaikyo fund is one way thatwe can keep our church going, so thatthe future generations can hear theteaching of the Buddha and Shinran.

Reflection: The feeling of gratitudecomes when we realize how much we didnot know during our growing process.

Omigaki ChurchAltar Clean-Up

Twice a year, we polish ourc h u rch altar and chapel for

Obon Service and the New Year. Thisyear we will clean-up the altar area onDecember 21, after our mochi tsukipowder has settled from last week.L e t ’s all come out and make ourchurch shine for the New Year. Wewill start from 9 AM until we finisharound 12 noon. Thanks.

Mochi Tsuki

The church will be making mochithis year on December 14, 2008

f rom about 7 am. We need lots of helpto form and cool them in the morn i n gand lots of help to clean up the floorafter the mochi tsuki. Please come outto help on Sunday, 14 December.

Orders for mochi will be taken nextmonth when we determine the priceof all of them.


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Temple Tid-Bits

Osonae and Flowers for memo-rial services:

Estate of Mrs. Shizuye InouchiIttsei Nakagawa for brother John

NakagwaWanto Fukuoka Nikkeijn Kai for

Memorial ServiceLou Minamoto for sister Yuki

MinamotoChristeen Oniki for mother

Fujie Oniki June Shimoda for father Tom

UtsurogiBay District BWA for BCA FBWA

delegates’ mtg.The church appreciates the gen-

erosity and thoughtfulness of thefamilies.

Electric TypewriterWe have had many responses to

our request for used typewriters touse in the office. We received onefrom Digger Sasaki, one from TedT a n i s a w a, one from S u m iCostarella and one from KumikoDiane Fukawa. We are trying themout and will pick one of them.Thanks to all of them for their gen-erous offers.

In Memoriam

The Buddhist Church extends itsdeepest sympathies to the family ofthe following member who haspassed away:

Rowena NakagawaSeptember 21, 2008

May the family find solace andcomfort in the Nembutsu.

NamuAmidaButsu

Eitaikyo PerpetualMemorial Service

The Buddhist Church of Oaklandcordially invites you to attend

the 2008 Eitaikyo Perpetual MemorialService, which will be conducted onNovember 16th. Our guest speakerwill be Rev. Yushi Taishi Mukojima ofthe Buddhist Temple of San Diego andhe will speak in both English andJapanese.

The Eitaikyo Memorial Service isheld in appreciation and respect forthose departed members who hadsupported and assisted the temple andwished to see the teachings flourish infuture years.

The program for the day is:10:00 am: Family Dharma Eitaikyo

Service10:45 am: Adult Eitaikyo Service12:00 am: Otoki lunchWe look forward to seeing you at

this important service. A dana enve-lope has been attached for your con-venience. Your contribution will begreatly appreciated. Thank you.

Ashland HowakaiBY DOROTHY YANAGI

The Ashland Howakai celebratedits 60th Anniversary on May 18,

2008 with a reunion of long-ago andpresent day members. Also in atten-dance were Rev. and Mrs. Yamaoka,Rev. and Mrs. Umezu and R e v .Sakamoto. Mrs. Dorothy Yanagi wasservice chairperson. Mrs. Yo Kawabatarecalled the history of the Howakai.

In observance of Memorial Day, Rev.

Yamaoka related his perspectives ofaccompanying the 442nd RCT/100thBattalion veterans on their tour ofEurope several years ago. A great per-centage of the fallen were Buddhistsbut they never had Buddhist servicesheld for them. In describing thestench and horrifying deeds ofDachau and the sacrifices that the442nd RCT/100th Battalion made forus, he reminded us that we need toremember the past and that we mustunderstand the interconnectedness ofall lives.

Dana from the following individu-als is also acknowledged with appre-ciation:

M/M Steve ArbogastMrs. Matsu HaradaMrs. Toshiye HasegawaM/M Don KaneshigeM/M Curt KawabataMs. Robin KawabataMrs. Yoshiye KawabataMr.Yutaka KoboriM/M Aki KuramotoMrs. Misato KuramotoMrs. Ruby KuritsuboMr. Sam MaruyamaM/M Fred MiyamotoM/M Masato MiyamuraMrs. Jean NakaoM/M Shig NaitoM/M Ben NakayaMrs. Sylvia NomuraRev./M G. SakamotoM/M Dick SasakiMrs. Matsue TaniM/M Ted TanisawaMrs. Yoshi TanisawaM/M James TsuruiMrs. Jane TsushimaRev./M Kodo UmezuRev./M Haruo YamaokaMrs. Dorothy YanagiM/M Shichiro YokomizoM/M Kenji Yoshida


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Highlights from the Septemberand October meetings:

OBWA wishes to thank the follow-ing for their most generous donations:

Mrs. Kayoko FujimotoMrs. T. MizusakiMrs. Janet UmezuMrs. Grace HaraMrs. Nancy YamamotoMrs. Fumie SogaMrs. Etsuko AikawaThank you to the following:To everyone who came to help at

omigaki.To those who came out to help at

Obon and to those who helped sellour cards.

Chuck and Jean Kawata for cuttingand donating the netting for thescrubbies

Toban “C” for helping with shotsukiand Ohigan otoki

Rev. Yamaoka, Daisy Tsujimoto,Ruby Kuritsubo, S a m and M a r yMatsumoto for OBWA semi annualhospital and home visitations.

Mrs. Mary Hiromoto for words ofappreciation at memorial service forEshinni, Kakushinni and LadyYoshiko Ohtani.

Namie Naito, Lou Minamoto,Chieko Endo and Ruby Kuritsubo forHondo cleaning on September 17th.

Jean Kawata, Kathy Terusaki andShigeko Yamaoka for serving refresh-ments at the Bay District FBWAMeeting.

Thank you to the faithful volunteerswho went to visit at Cypress House:

Alice Yokomizo, Jean Nakazono,Daisy Tsujimoto, Ruby Kuritsubo andShigeko Yamaoka.

COOKBOOK RECIPES: D e a d l i n e

for submission is December 31, 2008,as we’d like to get the cookbook outfor the 2009 bazaar.

Newsroom OBWABY PATTI HISAOKA

Do you have a favorite recipe that you are willing to share? OBWA iscollecting recipes for a new cookbook. Please send your recipes alongwith any interesting notes about the recipe to JoAnne Hayashida c/oBuddhist Church of Oakland, 825 Jackson Street, Oakland, 94607.

OBWA Cookbook

The 2008-09 Parent AssociationBoard is made up with the followingindividuals: President - Jon Takagaki,Co-Vice Presidents - Steve Terusakiand Gary Tominaga, Treasurer - KatieS a n b o n g i, Recording Secre t a ry -Lorraine Otsuka and CorrespondingSecretary - Kumiko Iwashita.

If you are interested in enrolling inany of the Gakuen classes, please visitthe temple website (buddhistchur-c h o a k l a n d . o rg), contact the templeoffice, or contact Jon Takagaki at 510-769-2975 (home) or by e-mail, [email protected].

Corrections: Last month’s Busshinarticle was published before informa-tion on the adult classes could be final-ized. The tuition and hours of classeswere mis-stated. The correct tuitionand hours are as follows: Saturdaymorning adult class meets 9:30am-12:00pm. Thursday evening adultclass meets 6:30pm-8:30pm. Adultclass tuition for either of the two class-es: $150 for the fall semester and $100for each of the winter and springsemesters.

Nippongo GakuenNewsBY EUNICE ASHIZAWA

The Oakland Nippongo Gakuenbegan its Fall semester on

Saturday, September 13. The Gakuen’sroster grew to 61 students, including23 adult students. Hideko Kirichijoined the Gakuen this school yearand teaches the high school age class.She brings many years of experienceteaching Japanese to various agegroups. Other children’s classes aretaught by returning teachers; NobueY a m a d a, Keiko Aizawa, Y u k i k oA d a m s, and Mami Yamagishi.Yamagishi Sensei also teaches one ofthe adult classes on Thursday evening.Saturday morning adult class is taughtby Reiko Kataoka.


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As our Dana Project, the Jr. YBAparticipated in the JASEB Walk-

a-thon on September 28th. It was abeautiful day out in Point Richmondand we enjoyed the scenery as well aseach other’s company. Thank you to allwho participated: Renzo Costarella,Collin Chung, Kevin Nakaso, KenjiO k a m u r a - W o n g, Yuki Okamura-

Wong, Trevi Pendro, Alison Takagaki,Lynne Takagaki a n d A l i s o nTominaga. Thank you to the parentswho walked with us: Lynn Chung,Steve Chung, Lynn Nakaso, P e t e rNakaso and Anne Tominaga. We hopeto do this again next year with manymore participants. Spread the word tosupport this worthy cause!

Welcome Back to Dharm aSchool. The first Dharm a

School Family Service was heldSeptember 7, 2008 and the familieswere treated to a delicious hot dog &chili luncheon. Thank you M o l l i eYoneyama and Daisy Tsujimoto forchairing the event and for all the par-ents who assisted in the kitchen:Kathie Hirota, Harry Bergland, GaryLawrence, Ron Nomura, Jon & LindaTakagaki

Roaring lions, swinging monkeysand grazing elephants were up next.The Dharma School took an excursionto the Oakland Zoo on Sunday,September 28th, for a fun outing withclassmates and the animals. Everyonetook a break and had a picnic in theouter area of the park and thenreturned to visit the otters and rides onthe train and Sky Rail. All DharmaSchool students’ fees were paid by theDharma School. If you did not receivereimbursement please see J a n e tUmezu. Thank you Maya Lawrence fororganizing this excursion.

Reminder if you plan to attend theBay District Family Conference, onS a t u rd a y, November 8, 2008 at thePalo Alto Buddhist Church, pleasesubmit your registration to M a y aL a w r e n c e at maya.Lawre n c e @ c o m-cast.net. The deadline was September30. However, if there is space avail-able, your registration will be taken.If there are no longer any spaces,your name will be placed on a wait-ing list. The church will subsidizehalf of the fees.

At the beginning of October, the stu-dents started working on theirKeirokai gifts. The gifts will be pre-

Jr. YBA News DharmaSchool News…BY JANET UMEZU

Jr YBA Installation

JASEB Walk-a-thon


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sented to the Keirokai members inattendance at the celebration of thenew Keirokai members on October 19.

Also mark your calendars for theHalloween Celebration on Sunday,October 26, 2008. Ghosts, goblins,witches and other scary creatures arewelcome to attend Dharma Service,play games and then visit the HauntedHouse presented by the Jr. YBA. Lunchwill follow.

Dharma School would also like togratefully acknowledge the followingdonations:

M/M Jon Takagaki for Alison’s birth-day

Daisy Tsujimoto for Grandchildren’sbirthdays; Alyssa & Devon Cho andSydney Wong

Gail T. & Andy Cho for Alyssa andDevon’s birthdays

Lianne T. and Jensen Wong forSydney’s birthday

Ron Fujii - Fujii Melons for water-melons and strawberries for New Termlunch

Mary Hiromoto for birthday gift

In conclusion theD h a rma Schoolwould like to belat-edly wish theOctober babies av e ry HappyBirthday: Miya Li,

Brittany Nakamura,Paul Noguchi, Cameron Owoc andJames Toyofuku. October birt h d a ySunday was celebrated on October 5.A very happy birthday to theNovember babies: Kaitlin Endo, ColinKwong, Leila Neishi, Kai Orans, Tae LiS h i m a m o t o and Kevin Terusaki.Birthday Sunday will be celebrated onNovember 2, 2008.

Happy Birthday!!!!!

October Birthdays

August and September Birthdays

CleaningClassrooms


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November Shotsuki Memorial ServiceService: Sunday, November 2, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. Sermon by Reverend Seigen Yamaoka

Family and relatives are invited to attend this monthly memorial service for those listed below. If any errors appear in thelist below, please notify the church office at (510) 832-5988 at your earliest convenience. Next month’s Shotsuki

Service will be held on December 7, 2008 at 10:00 a.m.

Mr. Isaburo Adachi – 50th YearMr. Shikanosuke Ajari Mrs. Fumiye Endo Mrs. Nao Endo Mr. Katsumi Fujii Mrs. Yuki Fujii Mrs. Shitoyo Fujinami Miss Chieko FurutaMr. Rihachi GotoMrs. Katsu HaradaMrs. Miyako HatakeyamaMr. Tom Hayashida Mrs. Judie Hirabayashi Mr. Mitsuru Hirai Mr. Mamoru Hirota Mr. Masakichi HirotaMrs. Kikuno Honda Mr. Tokuno Honda Mrs. Kotoshi Hori Mr. Masaru IdeMr. Akira KanagakiMrs. Chiyo Kaneko Mr. Haruto Kaneko Mrs. Miharu KanekoMrs. Ida Kanesaki Mr. Hyosuke Kawahata Mrs. Harue Kihara – 7th YearMr. Gunichi Kimura Mrs. Seki KomodaMr. Kiyoshi Kuritsubo Mr. Torasaburo MasudaMr. Vernon Matsui Mrs. Grace Misaki Mrs. Tori MisumiMr. Chikamitsu Mitsuda – 25th YearMr. Hanzo Miyazaki Mr. Kikuo MizuharaMr. Ichihei Mizusaki Mr. Jotaro Mori Mr. Ray Yoshiro Morishita – 1 YearMr. Rokuzo Morishita Mr. William Muranishi

Mr. Katsutaro NagaoMiss Tokie NajimaMrs. Mitsuko Nakagawa Mr. Roy Nakagawa Mr. Shotaro Nakamura Mr. Saichi Nakao Mr. Utaka Nakao Mrs. Hideko NakazonoMr. Akira NarasakiMrs. Yuriko Niizawa Mrs. Chiyono Nomiyama Mr. Fukuju NomiyamaMrs. Masano NomiyamaMrs. Matsuno Nomiyama Mr. Mitsuru NomiyamaMr. Chiyomatsu NomuraMr. Fred S. Nomura Miss Irene Nomura Mrs. Masae Nomura Mr. Genkichi OgiMr. Kansuke Ogi Mrs. Mine Ogi Mr. Shingo Ogihara Mr. Jitsuo Ohara Mr. Keisaburo OkaMr. Kiyoshi Okemoto Mr. Yoshitaka OnikiMrs. Kusue Saika Mrs. Su’e Sakamoto Mr. Masaji SatoMr. Yoshimatsu SetaBaby Shibata Mr. Gene Siu Mr. Torataro SumimotoMr. Kenji Suyetsugu Mrs. Sumi Tajiri Mrs. Kazumi Takahashi Mr. Fukutaro Takashima Mrs. Nakae TakashimaMr. Kazuma Takata Mr. Shinobu Takeshima

Mrs. Sumiko TakeshimaMr. Hideo Tamori Mr. Ichijiro Tanaka Mrs. Ren Tanaka – 3rd YearMrs. Tameyo Tanaka Mr. Takeso Taniguchi Mrs. Tora Taniguchi Mr. Genjuro Tsujimoto Mr. Yoshikusu Tsujimoto Mrs. Konoye UtsurogiMr. Tom Utsurogi – 17th YearMr. Sho Wakabayashi Mr. Sam Watahara Mr. Goichiro WatanabeMrs. Tokiye Watanabe Ms. Susan WongMrs. Akiye Yamabe Mrs. Koito Yamamoto Mr. Kaoru Yamamoto Mrs. Yoshi YamaokaMrs. Tsuru Yamashita Mrs. Clara Yokoyama Grandmother Yoshioka

DEADLINE FOR DECEMBER 2008 BUSSHIN

ARTICLES: November 3rd

A rticles submitted after thisdate may not be printed. Senda rt i c l e s to Joyce Yokomizo:

email: [email protected] fax: (415) 970-0810 You can also send articles to

Sam Yo n e y a m a at the churc hoffice.

BUSSHIN COLLATION by theO B WA on Thursday, November1 3t h at 7:30 p.m.


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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

November 2008

No Service

2:00 p.m.KagoshimaKenjinKai

General Meeting

10:00 a.m. Family Dharma

Service

10:00 a.m.OBWA CypressHouse Project

BusshinArticles Due!

7:30 p.m. BusshinCollating by the

OBWA

10:00 a.m.Wanto Shodo Kai

1:00 p.m.Line Dance

7:30 p.m.Karaoke

11:00 a.m.Fukuoka Kenjinkai

General Meeting

1:00 p.m.Line Dance

7:30 p.m.Karaoke

10:00 a.mWanto Shodo Kai

1:00 p.m.Line Dance

7:30 p.m.Karaoke

1:00 p.m.Line Dance

7:00 p.m.Youth Club

7:30 p.m.Karaoke

10:00 a.mMomiji Kai

9:00 a.mJapanese School

12:30 p.mEB YAL

Basketball Clinic


No JapaneseSchool

No Service

8:45 a.mBD Family

Gathering atPalo Alto



11:30 a.mRev. Yamaoka’sAppreciation

Luncheon

10:00 a.mEitaikyo Service

6:00 p.mAshlandHowakai

10:00 a.mMomiji Kai

HOLIDAYOffice Closed



7:00 p.mFukuoka Sister

City Ass’n

7:00 p.mYouth Club

6:00 a.mCalendar

CoordinatingMtg

7:00 p.mEBYAL

7:00 p.mConcordHowakai

7:30 p.m Board Meeting

9:00 a.mOBWA Mtg

10:00 a.m.Family Dharma &Shotsuki Service


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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

December 2008

9:00 a.m.OBWA meeting

10:00 a.m.Bodhi Day and

ShotsukiService, OBWA

Installation,Bonenkai

7:00 a.m.Mochi Tsuki

9:00 a.m.Omigaki Church

Clean up

7:30 p.m.Collate Busshinby Youth Club

10:00 a.mMomiji Kai

10:00 a.mMomiji Kai

BusshinArticles Due!

1:00 p.m.LIne Dance

7:30 p.m.Karaoke

1:00 p.m.LIne Dance

7:30 p.m.Karaoke

1:00 p.m.LIne Dance

7:30 p.m.Karaoke

1:00 p.m.LIne Dance

7:30 p.m.Karaoke

1:00 p.m.LIne Dance

7:30 p.m.Karaoke



7:00 p.m.Youth Club Mtg.

7:00 p.mEB YAL

7:00 p.mConcordHowakai

7:30 p.m Board Meeting

No JapaneseSchool

No JapaneseSchool



12:30 p.mWanto Fukuoka

KejinkaiBonenkai &

Bingo

8:00 p.m.Joya E Year-end

Service


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