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Jodo Mission of Hawaii

Bulletin - JULY 2015

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

O-Toba Set Up & Temple General Cleaning Sunday, July 5, 2015 at 8:00 a.m.

Your Help Is Needed

Below is the beginning of the O-Toba set up. Rev. Narashiba is putting the O-Toba foundation up little by little so when the day for O-Toba set up comes, it will not be difficult to see where the O-Tobas should be placed. So even if you see certain O-Tobas up, it does not mean we do not need your help. Thank you.

O-Bon Service Schedule

Friday, July 17

10:00 am (Hatsubon only)

2:00 pm & 7:00 pm

Saturday, July 18

10:00 am (Hatsubon only)

2:00 pm & 7:00 pm

Sunday, July 19

10:00 am

It takes a lot of people to set up the O-Tobas, so please come to help. To bring the hundreds of O-Tobas out to the front lawn, it takes manpower. To set up each O-Toba, it takes at least 2 persons, one to hold the wooden memorial stick and one to pound the nails to secure the wooden tablet. Please come!

O-Bon Service Schedule

O-Bon Services will be held as follows:

Friday, July 17 - 10:00 am (Hatsubon Families Only)

2:00 pm & 7:00 pm

Saturday, July 18 - 10:00 am (Hatsubon Families Only)

2:00 pm & 7:00 pm

Sunday, July 19 - 10:00 am

Sign up for O-Bon Service will begin 1 hour before 2 pm and 7 pm services.

This is on a first come first serve basis. NO phone orders will be taken.

Closing Service will be on Sunday, July 19 at 10:00 a.m. Cleanup will begin shortly

thereafter.

Parking Attendants Needed: We are in need of at least 6 parking attendants for each 2 pm service on July 17 and July 18. Please call Jodo Mission at 949-3995 if you are able to help direct cars to parking spaces. We appreciate your help.

O-Toba Service Appointments: If you wish to have prayers offered in front of your O-Toba, appointments will be accepted from 8:00 am to 6:45 pm for Tuesday July 7 to 10 a.m. on Sunday, July 19, 2015.

Offering of Rice: During O-Bon Services it is customary to offer a bag of

rice. However, monetary donations in lieu of rice are acceptable. “Rice” envelopes are available in the office. Thank you for your understanding and support.

Sr. YBA O-Bon Flower Sale: Please help the Sr. YBA by purchasing a beautiful potted

chrysanthemum ($2.00 each). NO phone orders will be taken. Thank you for your support.

Friday, July 17: 9:00 am to 7:30 pm Saturday, July 18: 9:00 am until supply runs out

Offerings at your O-Toba: The space allowed for each O-Toba is ap-

proximately 6 inches width and 7 inches in depth. Space is so precious! See photo at right. Last year someone was quite creative! Many family members visit the O-Tobas and bring offerings. Some are very organized and stack their offerings neatly in layers. It takes coordination among the various family members. Most people will offer foods that the deceased liked, i.e. fruits, mochi, pastries, candies, somen for long generation life, juice, soda.

Cucumber and eggplant: Some people will have a cucumber and eggplant on wooden sticks telling our ancestors to quickly back to this world and the eggplant (cow) to slowly return to the pure land and see you again next year.

The most important thing about ordering an O-Toba is to make sure you visit your O-Toba. If you are ill and cannot visit your O-Toba, please make sure you let

your relatives know so maybe they will make an effort to visit your O-Toba. Page 2

Lei Making Project for Punchbowl Veterans

On May 22, 2015, some members

and Rev. Narashiba strung flowers for leis for the graves of our veterans

at Punchbowl Cemetery. Members

included Doris and Teruto Soma,

Jo Ann Matsuo, Tomoko Hisamoto,

Peggy and Clifford Miyamoto,

Christine Inouye, Rev. Narashiba,

your photographer Koichiro Narita

and Aki Nishiyama who provided lunch for everyone. Seems like everyone had a wonderful time! Thank you to every-

one who brought flowers to be used for leis. When they ran

out of flowers, they used T-leaves to make leis. There was a

call from the community for more flowers and leis for the

graves at Punchbowl and this was Jodo Mission of Hawaii’s

contribution for leis to the veterans at Punchbowl of the Pa-

cific. THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!

Are you interested in other Jodo Missions newsletters: Jodo Mission of

Hawaii receives copies of all other Jodo Mission bulletins. If you are interest-

ed in reading them, please stop by the office and ask to see other bulletins.

We receive them from Hilo Meishoin, Lahaina Jodo Mission, Haleiwa Jodo

Mission, Kapaa Jodo Mission, Kahului Jodo Mission, Koloa Jodo Mission

and sometimes from the others.

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In preparation for Bon Dance:

The Honolulu Jodo Shu Fujinkai is looking for manpower for Bon Dance. Most of the ladies of the Fujinkai are in their 70s, 80s and 90s and when the sun

goes down, they go home. We could use your help on the day of the Bon

Dance, Friday and Saturday August 14 and 15 in the mornings and early after-noon for cutting vegetables for yaki soba or soba salad, stuffing sushi rice into

inari cones and packaging them for sale, they also could use your help in lifting

rice pots or helping wash dishes. In the evenings, your help would be needed to sell the products made or to help put together the yaki soba or serve the turkey

jook. Whatever time you can spare, please call Sally Hayashi at the temple on

weekends at 949-3995 or leave a message and she will call you back.

These ladies look like they are

having fun putting the yaki

soba together in containers

In order to make all these inari sushi on the right, it takes a lot of peo-

ple stuffing and packaging them as well as cooking and cooling the

rice, adding vinegar and vegetables. Your help is needed! Thank you.

YBA could use your help with

screwing the delicious BQ meat!

It takes a lot of people to screw

BQ sticks. So if you have some

time, please contact the Jodo Mis-

sion office and leave your name

that you are willing to help! They

also can use some dish washers

during the evenings.

B o n D a n c e

What do you think of Bon Dance - This is a time when family and friends get together remember our ancestors, dance to the music of the Taiko drums and eat wonderful

foods!

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HOLD MEMORIAL SERVICES

for Your Loved Ones’ Date of Passing

In Buddhism, memorial services are

observed on the date of passing, which comes

every year, and at the anniversaries, which

come every 4-6 years (please refer to the chart

of anniversaries as posted on the right).

At the memorial services, the family offers

flowers, food and incense to Amida Buddha

and their loved ones. Of course these offer-

ings are meritorious, but it is most required

that the family willingly recite “Namu Amida

Butsu (I take refuge in Amida Buddha)” bear-

ing sincerity toward the deceased person. It is

an opportunity for the family to honor the

deceased person as well as to clarify the

meaning of their lives, by learning the imper-

manent nature of life and appreciating the link

of lives of their ancestors. Services can be

observed at Jodo Mission of Hawaii or at your

home altar.

ANNIVERSARIES –2015

Anniversaries Year of Passing

1st year 2014

3rd 2013

7th 2009

13th 2003

17th 1999

23rd 1993

25th 1991

27th 1989

33rd 1983

37th 1979

43rd 1973

47th 1969

50th 1966

100th 1916

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YBA CONVENTION HELD AT AULANI

June 5, 6, 7, 2015

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YBA Convention was

held here on Oahu at the

Disney themed Auluni

Hotel. Those who went had

a wonderful time.

At their dinner at Ho Ho

Chinese Restaurant, a Distin-

guished Service Award was

presented to Kenneth Ma-

satsugu of Haleiwa Jodo Mis-

sion for 30 years of service

with Haleiwa Jodo Mission.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Above is a photo of the YBA

statewide officers for 2015-2016

with President Jennie Hashiro and

Shuji Rev. John Hara of Kahului

Jodo Mission. In June 2016, the

YBA Convention will be held on

Maui.

A hospitality room was provided for members to

play hanafuda or just have good fellowship!

Obituaries

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.

Kaoru Matsumura 95

Yukie Sakamoto 94

Norman Shiro Ueno 96

Lilian Sadako Nakano 84

Richard Mitsuru Hirota 95

Norma Sumiko Muramoto 102

Masanori Matsumoto 94

Yaeko Ishida 95

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

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Bishop Gensho Hara Lahaina, Maui

2015 BON DANCE SCHEDULE OF JODO SHU TEMPLES

Island Temple Phone No. Dates Times

Oahu Betsuin 949-3995 Aug 14 to 15 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Haleiwa 637-4382 June 19 to 20 6/19: 8 pm – 10 pm

6/20: 8 pm – 11 pm

Big Island [Hawaii] Kurtistown

Call Rev. Miyazaki (808) 936-7828

(808) 935-6996

(808) 936-7828

August 1 8:00 pm

Hilo July 11 8:00 pm

Hakalau August 15 8:00 pm

Hamakua

Call Rev. Wansa

(808) 775-0965

August 8 6:30 pm

Kohala July 11 6:30 pm

Hawi August 1 6:30 pm

Maui Kahului Call Rev. John Hara

(808) 244-0066

August 15 7:00 pm

Wailuku June 19 7:00 pm

Lahaina (808) 661-4304 July 3 7:00 pm

Kapaa (808) 822-4319 June 12 to 13 7:30 pm Kauai

Koloa (808) 742-6735 July 24 to 25 7:30 pm

1 Kichi Yanagisawa The Yanagisawa Family Yone Ishida Yoshikazu Kakimoto

2 Toyo Tojo

The Tojo Family Tsune Uchiumi Minoru Shigeta Kikuyo Gonhata] Ellen Kimiko Hedani Yuhei Kunimura

3 Tamayo Yanagihara Robert Yoshimura

4 Setsuyo Sugihara

The Sugihara Family Sumiyo Yamanaka Kajo Teruya (3) Isami Yoshikawa The Yoshikawa Family The Yamanaka Family Masaru Taira

5 Asao Takara

Shige Ikeda Fred Yutaka Sakuda Donna Haruko Furutani Hawayo Yamamoto

6 Takaichi Hamada

The Hamada Family Miki Ajimura The Ajimura Family Takezo Ishida Yosuke Mitsutani

7 Hisa Akimoto

Taki Ishimoto Seiji Ogawa Kenneth Tsugio Ito Richard Shunichi Yoshida

8 Yoshio Furumoto

Kamado Takara Hiroshi Arakawa Sueko Kiyama Shigeko Shimamoto

9 Kameichi Okamura

Matsuyo Kamioka Kumataro Gonhata Masashi Kimura

10 Tatsu Yanagihara

The Yanagihara Family Shina Kaya The Kaya & Shimazaki

Family Keizo Nagata The Nagata Family Yojiro Yamashina Ukichi Nakano Fuji Kitagawa

11 Toyo Nanbu

The Nanbu Family Fusa Murakami (2) The Murakami Family The Yamamoto Family Shigeyo Ipponsugi Iwao Asaumi

12 Hideo Higashi

Kamesaburo Gushiken Akiyo Yano Morio Yanagihara Toshiji Oka

13 Kazuichi Akimoto

Bunji Aoki The Aoki Family Toki Yamamoto The Yamamoto Family Setsuyo Nitta Yai Ouchi Watanabe Sadako Asaumi 14 Takao Amano Kanichi Morita Fukutaro Nagata Haya Kamimura Kazuo Kamimura Kanichi Morita

15 The Nakagawa Family

The Koike Family The Fujisue Family Doris Chiyoko Hayashi Florence Satoko Law

16 The Juichi Yamada Family The Fujii Family The Shikata Family The Nishii Family The Okazaki Family Haruo Okahara The Okahara Family R. Toyoji Tominaga Tetsuichi Umemoto

17 Ito Tanimura

The Tanimura Family Kome Nishiguchi The Nishiguchi Family Takiko Amakawa

Yumei Uyehara Tomoe Yoshioka Edwin Juichi Yagi

18 Hisako Fujihana

The Fujihana Family Seiji Nakagawa Miyoji Aoki Masutaro Kunihisa Tokiyo Masaki Masaaki Maruichi Okiyo Matsumoto Matsu Sadoyama Kimiko Yamagata

19 Misae Higashihara

Thomas Tamotsu Hamada

20 Gonshichi Shintaku

Fukuji Ikeda Katsumi Imada Ayako Hibi

21 Shigeru Nakata

Usuke Oda Kamekichi Toyofuku

22 Keisuke Kimura

The Kimura Family Takeo Matsunaga Motohiro Tanimura Matsuyo Miyagi

23 June Junko Yamashita

Keizo Oda Sadako Kishimoto

24 Masako Narahara

25 Matsuno Mishina

The Mishina Family Masuo Yanagihara The Yanagihara Family The Kimura Family The Weiss Family (Stillborn)

26 Naosuke Nakamoto

The Nakamoto & Sakagawa Family Toshio Fujimoto The Fujimoto Family Pauline Aiko Nakamura

27 Sakutaro Koyama

The Koyama Family Sayoko Takaoka Hatsu Maruichi

Yoichiro Watanabe Yone Tarumoto

28 Koichi Ogi

Sadamu Iwamoto Miyoko Ohara Darin Sueo Furutani Fumiko Iwamoto

29 Kansuke Yano

The Yano, Konaka & Hayashi Family Mitsuo Sakakibara Chiya Wada Koto Kunimura

30 Noriaki Masuda

The Masuda & Asamura Family Kinosuke Kitamura The Kitamura Family Toshisuke Iwamoto Noriaki Masuda Matsuo Hirayasu Bishop Shutesu Miyamoto Shizue Ogomori

31 Haruo Nakano

Kameyo Hayashi Usano Yamane Katsumi Yano Evelyn Chieko Fujita Nobu Namba

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