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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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