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Jodo Mission of Hawaii
Bulletin - APRIL 2015 (#1221-0415)
Jodo Mission of Hawaii 1429 Makiki St. Honolulu HI 96814 Address
Service Requested
HBC BUDDHA DAY CELEBRATION
April 8th is the birthday of Shakyamuni Buddha. This birthday
celebra-
tion is known as "Buddha Day and is also known as
Hanamatsuri.
The Hawaii Buddhist Council cordially invites everyone to the
Buddha Day Service. This year the service will be held at Soto
Mission of Hawaii. The guest speaker is Dr. Jay Sakashita,
Professor of Religion, Arts and Humanities at Leeward Community
College and the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
WHEN: Sunday, April 5, 2015
TIME: 9:00 a.m.
WHERE: Soto Mission of Hawaii 1708 Nuuanu Ave., Honolulu, HI
96817
PH: 537-9409
Guest Speaker: Dr. Jay Sakashita
Parking: Limited, carpooling encouraged
The Hawaii Buddhist Council is comprised of the following
Buddhist temples: Higashi Hongwanji Mission, Honpa Hongwanji
Mission, Jodo Mission of Hawaii, Koyasan Shingon Mission, Nichiren
Mis-sion of Hawaii, Soto Mission of Hawaii and Tendai Mission of
Hawaii. It is always nice to get together with fellow Buddhists!
Please come and celebrate Buddhas Birthday!
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Hanamatsuri Celebration a t Jodo Miss ion
Jodo Mission of Hawaii will have its own Hanamatsuri Celebration
on Sunday, April 12, 2015. Please come and bring your family and
children.
When: Sunday, April 12
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Where: Jodo Mission of Hawaii 1429 Makiki Street Honolulu, HI
96814 PH: 949-3995
Picture Contest: What does Hanamatsuri mean to me? Hanamatsuri
or Buddha Day is the celebration of the day Shakyamuni Buddha was
born on April 8th in Lumbini, Napal. Does it have any meaning to
you? If so, would you please draw a picture of what does
Hanamatsuri mean to me.
This would be a good time to re-think about what does
Hanamatsuri or Bud-dha Day mean to me? Like any contest, we shall
have a prize so please have your creative thinking cap on and draw
something! Thank you
ANNOUNCEMENT
O-Toba Order Forms for 2015 We mailed out O-Toba order forms for
this year in February, 2015.
If you have not received your O-Toba Order Form for 2015, please
call Rev. Narashiba at 949-3995.
Thank you.
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Commemorative Symposium Honen Buddhism, East to West In
celebration of the 120th anniversary of the arrival of the first
Jodo Shu Ministers to Hawaii (Rev. Taijo Matsuo in March 25, 1894
and Rev. Gakuo Okabe on May 14, 1894), a Symposium Honen Bud-dhism,
East to West, was held at the Betsuin on March 14 (mainly in
Japanese) and continued on March 15, 2015 in English.
Professor Kiyohiko Fujimoto: Professor Fujimoto who is also a
Jodo Shu minister comes from the same temple where Rev. Okabe, came
from in Oshima-gun, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Rev. Shinri Hara gave an
overview in English of Professor Fujimotos talk on March 14
regarding the Eastward Movement of Honen Buddhism. Professor
Fujimoto stated that the first line of Eastward movement to
Westward movement are the ministers. Practice of Nembutsu. Today we
are linked by culturereligionculture. Reciting the NembutsuNamu
Amida Butsu gives us peace and comfort. The Eight Fold Path is our
guide.
Gary Link: Gary Link of New York Monastery Quon Yeung and has
been a devotee of Nembutsu. He has been corresponding with Rev.
Ishikawa of Koloa Jodo Mission since 2005. He discussed the website
communication of ministers and members. Recommended that temples
have a central site for their website and that the website be
updated reg-ularly. We also need more publications in English so
those who may be interested can gain some insight.
Rev. Edarudo Ryoho Sasaki: Rev. Sasaki is from Brazil and he
talked about Honen Buddhism in South America, particularly Brazil.
Japanese in Brazil endured a lot. After World War II there were a
lot of babies born who were abandoned because they were not full
Japanese but hapa or mixed. A minister sensitive to this wanted to
start an orphanage but
found another group more in needthe mentally challenged. They
have a welfare sys-tem not like our system. There are 1200 families
supporting their system. As the peo-ple grow older, although they
are Japanese and were fluent in Portuguese and Japanese, they would
go back to their own Japanese which they were used to before. Rev.
Sasakis word is COURAGE!
Leonard Chow: Leonard is President of the Hawaii Council of Jodo
Missions and stated he grew up with Chinese Pure Land Buddhism. But
in 1972 he learned about Jodo Buddhism. He had many talks with
former Hilo Meishoin minister Rev. Dwight Nakamura. He stressed
local born ministers would help and possibly getting them educated
in Hawaii. He also mentioned the YouTube sermons by Rev. Kosen
Ishikawa and Rev. Koji Ezaki are informative. He also stressed
about opening the doors to all ethnic groups and we need to reach
out to improve society. Page 3
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Den Den Mushi
On Sunday, February 22, 2015, six students from Shukutoku
University Panel Theater Group performed their panel story with
singing for everyone who
attended the Sunday Service.
The students were: Yuki Takano, Kana Iwasaki, Manami Yagi, Seiya
Matsuzaki, Sayaka Hirano and Risa Katsuki. While on Oahu and on the
neigh-bor islands, Den Den Mushi visit care homes. Everyone enjoyed
their perfor-
mance which also included some exercise.
Above: Den Den Mushi performed a song with exercises
Left Photo: Den Den Mushi sang B I N G O.
Below Photo: After their last song, Its A Small World, each
received a flower lei. Below Den Den Mushi posed for photo with
Sunday School students.
With the room dark-ened, Den Den Mushi used materials that
illuminated. How beautiful!
If you missed the Den Den Mushi per-formance, please be sure to
come the next time they come to our temple!
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Fujinkai Ladies Enjoy BINGO at New Years Party
The Honolulu Jodo Shu Fujinkai ladies held their annual General
Membership meet-ing on February 22, 2015, which also included their
New Years party. Prior to the New Years party, the ladies and
temple members enjoyed Den Den Mushis performance of the panel
theater group from Shukutoku University. Every-one enjoyed their
performanceso precious! And so pleasant! See photos on page 4 of
Den
Den Mushi performance.
At the Fujinkai meeting, the 2015-2017 officers
were installed:
Keiro ladies (80 years and older) were recognized and received a
package of sekihan (mochi rice with azuki beans or happy rice)
served on happy occasions like our New Years party! Front row:
Mikie Karimoto, Joyce Yoshikawa, Yoshiko Kitagawa, Tomoko Hisamoto,
Doris Soma; Second row: Harumi Molnaire, Harue Maki, Akiko
Nishiyama, Peggy Miyamoto. These ladies also worked hard earlier in
the day and the day before preparing for the delicious luncheon
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Den Den Mushi and Sunday School students enjoyed lunch at
Fujinkais New Years party. Shortly after this photo was taken, the
Den Den Mushi Group gathered their suitcases and were off to Kauai
to meet Rev. Ishikawa of Koloa and Kapaa Jodo Missions. Their time
on Oahu was short but we were happy that they were able to join the
Fujinkais New Years party. The Sunday School students were happy
too!
Oahu Jodo Shu Rengo Convention
Any Honolulu Jodo Shu Fujinkai member who wants to go to the
Oahu Jodo Shu Rengo Fujinkai Convention in Haleiwa, please contact
Jodo Mission (949-3995) to put in your
reservation for the bus ride and bento lunch.
WHEN: Sunday, April 26, 2015 TIME: 10:00 a,m. service (bus
leaves at 9:00 am from Jodo Mission of Hawaii PLACE: Haleiwa Jodo
Mission 66-278A Haleiwa Road, Haleiwa, Hawaii 96712
President: Sally Hayashi; Vice President: Akiko Nishiyama;
Secretary: Doris Soma; Recording/Corresponding Secretary: Edna
Ajimura; Treasurer: Yukari Narashiba; Assistant Treasurer: Tomoko
Hisamoto; Auditors: Yoshiko Kitagawa and Gail Masaki and Shuji:
Rev. Yubun Narashiba.
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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.
Isamu Kawae 89
Fusako Yoshikane 86
Tsukiko Kamimura 82
Tomiko Kawahara 94
Kimiko Kitagawa 97
Sadao Kishimoto 89
Stanley Takeshi Hasegawa 73
Judy Kimie Teruya 89
Jodo Mission Office Hours:
Monday to Saturday
8am5pm Sunday & Holidays
8am3pm
Phone: 949-3995
Website: www.jodo.us
Re. 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
during the morn-ing service. The prayers will continue 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 wel-come 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 application is accepted, the name will be
listed on the record.
Rev. Yubun Narashiba Head Minister
Rev. Kanjun Nakano Resident Minister
Bishop Gensho Hara Lahaina, Maui
Above: Bishop Atone enjoying friendships with members.
Left: Rev. Sasaki of Brazil and Rev. Shinri Hara with
members
Photos from fellow-ship at Symposium on March 15, 2015
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1 Anzaemon Kajioka The Kajioka & Morita Family Yae Ogata
Mistuko Arakawa Shimoyo Karamatsu Seiichi Kimura George Kaname
Sakuda
2 Ryosaku Maeda The Maeda Family Shuzaburo Kunihiro The Kunihiro
Family Masao Kamihara James Isamu Tomita Hoichi Nishimura
Family
3 Kinjuro Ajimura The Ajimura Family Katsuichi Takeda The Takeda
Family Takeo Kuniyuki Katsusaburo Yamamoto Kikue Kubota
4 Masayo Kusunoki The Kusunoki Family Shinichi Amakawa The
Amakawa Family Hitomi Miyaura
5 Tsune Isobe The Isobe Family Mamoru Najita Isematsu Takenaka
Kazumitsu Kaya
7 Yasu Hirohama The Hirohama & Kawasugi Family Kikujiro
Uchiumi Naomi Fuse Johnson Fay Johnson Yumi Yokoyama Isaburo Terada
Toru Yamane
8 Tadaichi Aoki The Aoki Family Kojiro Okamoto The Okamoto &
Nakamoto Family Shigekichi Yoshizaki The Yoshizaki Family Naotaka
Hayashi Misue Imamoto Yoshio Takara Masamitsu Nakano
9 Shizuko Hironaka The Hironaka & Ishimoto Family Fumie
Iwasaki Tokio Nishikawa
10 Tomi Arakawa Matsuji Yamamoto
11 Tsunekichi Matsuno The Matsuno Family Sadako Yokoyama The
Yokoyama & Morita Family Teru Sakuda The Sakuda Family Sada
Harada
The Kohatsu Family Yoshiko Hara
12 Naka Nakamura Toshiko Umemoto 13 Yasuko Daitoku The Daitoku
& Fujimoto Family Kayo Doi Tsuyo Uchiumi Zentoku Uyehara Yasu
Iguchi Masashi Yamane
14 Heiji Yasumoto The Yasumoto Family Yoshi Okamura (2) Kiyoto
Kawaoka
15 Toso Kamisato The Kamisato Family The Aoki Family Mikayo
Higashimura Toshiro Kawabe The Kawabe Family Masakane Himuro Kenji
Hayashi Toshiko Sumida Nishimoto William Hatsuichi Kishimoto
16 Bunsuke Isobe The Isobe Family Ryu Tsurusaki The Tsurusaki
& Inada Family Masatoshi Umemoto Patsy Hisako Himuro Mitsuyoshi
Gushikuma
17 Kenichi Namba The Namba Family Tsuneharu Imaguchi Betty
Hisako Goto
18 Toyokichi Iguchi The Iguchi & Sasaki Family Eki Mineishi
The Mineishi Family Yojiro Watanabe
19 Jun Kunihiro The Kunihiro Family Motoo Ueda The Ueda Family
Maka Tamanaha The Tamanaha Family Matsutaro Shimizu Isamu Yoshioka
Thomas Rai
20 Hiroshi Ohta Mantsu Takara Shozaemon Matsumoto Mildred Yukiko
Ito
21 Naomi Takara Genichi Tamura Kikue Kakimoto
22 Kyoichi Koyama The Koyama Family Chieko Miyakawa Hiroshi
Nakai
The Nakai Family Kazu Saiki Kyoichi Koyama Francis Sadamu
Furutani, Jr.
23 Bishop Sensho Fukuda Eiko Gushikuma Shigeichi Aoki Moushi
Uyehara Tom Shigeo
24 Setsuyo Misawa (2) The Misawa Family The Watanabe Family
Yoshio Kunimoto
25 Michizo Imaguchi (2) The Imaguchi Family Yasuko Ueda
Tsunegoro Iwamoto Soichi Sakai
26 Kikujiro Yokoyama The Yokoyama & Morita Family Makoto
Takahashi Masato Ishida Tokue Uehara
27 Misae Umemoto The Umemoto Family The Ida Family The
Matsushima Family Shizue Nose Robert Kazuo Murakami Haruko
Teruya
28 Rokusuke Yanagihara The Yanagihara Family Iwakichi Matsuda
The Toichi Funamoto Family Misao Yamane Masa Okamoto Miyao Ume
Kawamura
29 Mitsuyo Kamioka The Kamioka & Hanaoka Family Tatsuyo
Ohara (2) The Ohara Family Tsuchi Kajioka Heijiro Asai Tsune Uesugi
Koji Kamioka Manzuchi Higashi Kazuto Hamada Hatsumi Nakamura
Yoshiyo Yanagihara Mitsuyo Kanai Yoshida Mitoshi Tanaka (2)
30 Tsuru Matsuno Esa Yamane Kume Nakamoto The Nakamoto &
Sakagawa Family The Matsuno Family The Yamane Family & Harada
Family Shigetaka Imada Miyoko Shindo
EITAIKYO (Perpetual Memorial Service) for April
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