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Jodo Mission of Hawaii

1429 Makiki Street Honolulu HI 96814 Address Service Requested

Jodo Mission of Hawaii

Bulletin - JUNE 2014

JODO MISSION OF HAWAII

Volunteer Office Worker Needed Fridays: June 6, 13, 20, 27 and July 8

9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Duties include: answering the telephone, receiving reservations for memorial ser-

vices, taking messages, collecting payments, answering the Nokotsudo or Colum-barium 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 answer 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.

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O-Bon Service Schedule

O-Bon Services will be held as follows:

Friday, July 25 – 10:00 am (Hatsubon Families Only)

2:00 pm & 7:00pm

Saturday, July 26 – 10:00 am (Hatsubon Families Only)

2:00 pm & 7:00pm

Sunday, July 27 – 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 27 at 10:00am. After Closing Service,

cleanup will begin.

Parking Attendants Needed: We are in need of at least 6 parking attendants for

each 2 pm and 7 pm services. Please call Jodo Mission at 949-3995 if you are able to help direct cars to parking spaces. We appreciate your help.

Private O-Toba Service Appointments: If you wish to have prayers offered in front of your O-Toba, appointments are being accepted from 8:00 am to 6:45 pm from Tuesday, July 15 to 10 a.m. on Sunday, July 27, 2014.

Arigato

Arigato for your many orders of O-Tobas. We are happy that you

remembered your deceased family members and we will do our best

to see that your O-Tobas are prepared at your request. After July 13

when the O-Tobas are set up, please remember to also visit your

O-Tobas.

June 30: DEADLINE: Chutoba & Chochin Orders

July 13: O-Toba Set Up & General Cleaning -

YOUR HELP IS NEEDED July 25-27: O-Bon Services Aug.15-16: Bon Dance

Important Dates

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Introduction of Sho-ryo Dana in O-Bon

Butsudan

1) Incense: Purify the area of Sho-

ryo Dana with the smoke of

incense

2) Flower: Flower is a symbol of

purity. There are numerous

flowers in the Pure Land.

3) Water: Water is a symbol of

offering. The offered water is

called “AKA” that is translated

from a Sanskrit word “Argha”,

the most valuable thing.

4) Candle: A candle light is show-

ing us the light of wisdom and

compassion of Amida Buddha.

5), 6) Cucumber and Eggplant

with sticks: With a Cucumber,

make a horse (using sticks) for

your ancestors to return home

early. Make a Cow with an Egg

plant (using sticks) for them to

return to the Pure Land slowly.

7) Mizu-noko: The fresh cut egg-

plant and cucumber with washed

rice. Offering food in prayer to

help everyone from hunger in any

realms. (Optional)

8) Some rice in a bowl of Water

and a leaf of Lythrum ancepts:

This expands food limitlessly.

(Optional)

9) Nishime without meat: A tradi-

tional Japanese food used as mon-

asterial food called Sho-jin

Ryo-ri.

10) Somen noodle: Somen noodle is

a symbolic food for longevity.

11) Fruits and vegetables: Offer

gifts of nature to Buddha and

ancestors.

12) Mochi or any favorite food: Offer gifts of nature

to Buddha and ancestors.

13) Bamboo grass: Protection to keep away the bad

spirits from the Sho-ryo Dana.

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Getting Ready for O-Bon: Most people offer flowers, fruits and veg-

etables, candies and drinks. Each O-Toba has about a 6 inch by 6 inch

space for you to work with; otherwise you are into someone else’s space. The

photo at left shows someone with flowers and fruits and as

you can see there is not a lot of space. Last year, Marie

Otani had graciously shared some of her family’s customs and we would

like to repeat some of them:

While the O-Tobas are up during the O-Bon season, it is important and

customary to attend to the O-Tobas, similar to caring for gravesites or niches. Over the many

O-Bon seasons that our family has observed at Jodo Mission, we have developed our style of

caring for our O-Toba. We typically attend to those tasks as soon as the O-Toba is set up,

usually on the Sunday before the start of the O-Bon services.

Flowers are placed at the base of the O-Toba. The temple sets up a basin and makes

available empty glass jars near the fence facing the freeway. But during the year, our family

sets aside suitable jars and we use those instead, leaving the available jars for others. To keep

them from tipping over with our trade winds, we tie the jars loosely to the base of the O-Toba.

To help the flowers stay fresher longer, we cut the flower stems under water.

Food for the ancestors is placed on the shelf in front of the O-Toba. We typically get

oranges since they last longer and are resistant to the weather. To prevent the orange from

rolling on the shelf, we put the orange in a paper bowl. To allow rain water to drain, we poke

holes in the base of the bowl. Then we attach the bowl to the shelf with a little tape, being

careful not to block the drain holes. Blue painter’s tape leaves little or no residue.

THANK YOU Marie for sharing. Please note that everyone is welcome to use the

empty bottles provided near the water basin usually located near the fence facing the free-

way as Marie mentioned above.

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Mother’s Day Photos

Three happy Sunday School mothers:

Hitomi Paraso, Makoh Nii, Yukari

Narashiba!

Photo of oldest mother (Yoshiko

Kitakawa) and oldest Sunday

School student(A’Marie Paraso)

The Intermediate

YBA treated every-

one with a delicious

lunch. THANK

YOU Sunday

School, Intermedi-

ate YBA, Sunday

School coordinator

Kay Oshiro and

Sunday School ad-

visor Rev. Nakano.

Sunday School honored their mothers and

all women who attended with red carnations.

OBON CHUTOBA ORDER FORM

Obon Services will be held Friday, July 25th to Sunday, July 27th, at Jodo Mission of Hawaii

DEADLINE: June 30, 2014

YOUR NAME（お名前）：___________________________________________PHONE（お電話番号）：________________

NAME OF DECEASED（亡くなった方のお名前）：

1._________________________________________________________

2._________________________________________________________

3._________________________________________________________

4._________________________________________________________

One Chutoba is $ 7.00 × Total of Chutoba ＿＿＿＿＿＿ ＝ Total ＄＿＿＿＿＿＿

（中塔婆 1本 7ドル） （本数） （合計）

On which day are you coming? （いつお参りにこられますか？）

Please circle date and time.

Fri, July 25 2 pm or 7 pm

Sat, July 26 2 pm or 7 pm

Sun, July 27 10 am

Or

Cannot attend the service

ORDER FORM FOR CHOCHIN （LANTERN、ちょうちん申し込み用紙）

DEADLINE: June 30, 2014

YOUR NAME （お名前）：_____________________________________＿PHONE : (お電話番号) ：_________________

NAME OF DECEASED（亡くなった方のお名前）：

1.____________________________________________________________

2.____________________________________________________________

3.____________________________________________________________

4.____________________________________________________________

LARGE(大)＿＿＿＿×＄10.00 + SMALL(小)＿＿＿＿×＄7.00 = TOTAL（合計）＄______________

FOR OFFICE USE ONLY

Order accepted by : _______________ Date accepted : _______/______/ 2014 ( In person / Mail / By phone )

Received by : _______________ Date paid : _______/______/ 2014 (Cash / Check # __________ ) Write_______

( Cut )

FOR OFFICE USE ONLY

Order accepted by : _______________ Date accepted : _______/______/ 2014 ( In person / Mail / By phone )

Received by : _______________ Date paid : _______/______/ 2014 (Cash / Check # __________ ) Write_______

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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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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 7/18: 8 pm – 10 pm

7/19: 8 pm – 11 pm

Big Island [Hawaii]

Kurtistown

Call Rev. Miyazaki

(808) 935-6996

August 2 8:00 pm

Hilo July 18 to 19 7/18: 7:30 pm

7/19: 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 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

Bishop Gensho Hara Lahaina, Maui

Father’s Day June 15th is Father’s Day

We always remember our Mothers,

but do we always remember our

Fathers?

Please come to our Father’s Day

Service and honor your father by

your presence on June 15th at 10 a.m.

Stuart Nago will play a song on his ukulele

or guitar

1 Tatsuo Nonaka

2 Takayo Fukuda The Fukuda Family Yasuichi Nakai The Nakai Family Kikue Tejima The Tejima Family Yasu Kawamura Fujio Fujita

4 Rui Yasumoto Shizutaro Kimura Fujiko Teruya Katsu Yokoyama Susan Teruko Lubick Rose Kikue Hata

5 Kamematsu Kano The Kano & Watanabe Families Shuichi Arakawa Yoshikazu Ebisuzaki Tamon Yamaguchi Japanese Marines

6 Chujiro Nishimura The Nishimura Family Matsu Wakagi The Wakagi Family Tomo Daitoku (2) The Daitoku, Fujimoto,

& Kawauchi Families

Shinichi Fukuda The Fukuda Family Miyoshi Takara

7 Ayako Morikawa The Morikawa Family Taki Asai Kichi Kunihisa Shina Kotake

8 Soichi Hirano The Hirano & Kaneko Families The Hirota Family Saku Yokoyama

9 Sueko Tanimura The Tanimura Family Kenzaburo Ishii The Ishii Family Emi Kawamoto

10 Hosuke Miyagawa The Miyagawa Family Ariki Fujimoto Hisako Mitani Mieko Ono Bertha Takako Homareda

12 Bunjiro Umemoto The Umemoto Family Mitsuyoshi Okamura The Okamura Family

13 Charlse Harumi Takabayashi (2) Jeane Sachiko Ebisuzaki

14 Masuzo Konaka The Konaka, Yano,

& Hayashi Families

Kiichi Morisako Katsuko Sakakibara Shigeki Narahara

15 Yoshio Morita The Morita Family Kikutaro Higashide The Higashide & Fuyukawa Families Albert Akira Sakuda

16 Onichi Chinen The Chinen Family Chiyo Heirakuji Harry Noboru Matsumoto Iwao Oki

17 Natsu Kawamura The Kawamura Family Senjiro Ogawa Ichiro Nakatsuka The Hirotsu Family Helen Miyoko Oda Hachijiro Homareda

18 Bunkichi Kamimura Tama Morita The Morita Family Chiyo Mori Hatsuyo Yoshikawa Kame Uyehara The Uyehara family Kay Kimiko Yamamoto Janice Yoshiko Kitashiro

19 Kiyomatsu Ueno The Ueno Family Shinei Kanehira The Kanehira Family Mitsuru Ogi Kenichi Naito Sam Saburo Taniguchi Kikuyo Morioka Miyoshi Akashi

20 Hisataro Yanagihara The Yanagihara Family Naoji Yokoyama Moushi Kobashigawa Kame Uyehara

Ichitaro Matsuda Hisakichi Yamamoto Wade Kenji Sakai

21 Sumi Takeda The Takeda Family Komanoshin Masatsugu Teruo Masatsugu Ayako Tasaka Suzuko Shigehara Yoshito Charles Oshita

22 Isuke Iwasaki Murakami's Baby Kazumi Mizuta Yoshimi Maruuchi Edward Isamu Kimoto Moshi Takara Takara’s Baby

23 Isamu Yonemoto The Yonemoto Family Yoshio Higa The Higa Family Yoshiko Hamasaki Jonosuke Arakawa Kosuke Takara Kihachi Kishimoto

24 Yoshito Ebisuya The Ebisuya Family The Fujii Family Tokiko Karakake

25 Hana Mitsutani The Mitsutani Family Nobuyuki Nishida Yukio Hirata Akio Nathon Tagami

26 Fuji Yano The Yano, Konaka,

& Hayashi Families

Daizo Kawamura The Kawamura Family Mokunosuke Taniguchi Isamu Nakano Keigo Soma Claris Sadako Yamamoto

27 Ron Kiyoshi Amasaki Akira Shimoda

28 Shintaro Masuda The Masuda & Asamura Families Ryoshichi Himuro The Himuro Family Kiyoichi Oshiro

29 Kumanosuke Morikawa The Morikawa Family Sadamu Yanagihara

The Yanagihara Family Kinuyo Karimoto Ziu Takaoka Kiichi Takaoka Shizuko Heirakuji Grace Kawafuchi

30 Hana Ishizaki Tsurue Nagaishi The Nakauye Family John Yoshito Nakauye Koei Takara Gerald Kenji Sato

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Obituaries The Jodo Mission of Hawaii

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lences to the family mem-

bers and loved ones of the

following members who have

recently left this world for

the Pure Land.

Thomas Hiroaki Furuike 83 Herbert Kazumi Doi 90 Fusaye Mizuta 99

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