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The monthly bulletin of the Jodo Mission of Hawaii.
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Jodo Mission of Hawaii
Bulletin - AUGUST 2014
Jodo Mission of Hawaii 1429 Makiki St.
Honolulu HI 96814
Address Service Requested
(#1213-0814)
Bon Dance 盆おどり
August 15, Friday: 6:30pm-9:30pm
August 16, Saturday: 6:30pm-9:30pm
(August 15, Friday: 5:45pm Jizo Bon prayer will be held
in front of Jizo statue)
Please come, bring your kimonos, happi coats and dance around the yagura and enjoy the many food items: bentos, BBQ sticks,
saimin, sushi, yaki soba, soba salad, spam musubi, Andagi (Okinawan donuts), hot dog, chili, chili and rice, turkey jook, waffle dog, juice, soda, shave ice, water, etc.
Food Booths will open at 4:30pm
Kiddie games will also be available
Getting ready for the Bon Dance
Dancers enjoying themselves
around the yagura
Helping with Bon Dance Preparation: If you are willing to help with Bon Dance preparation, your help is most appreciated. Please come to the Temple on Thursday, Aug 14 and/or Friday, Aug 15 and/or Saturday, Aug 16 at 9:00 a.m. If you are only avail-able in the evening during Bon Dance hours, we can also use your help. Please contact the Temple for more information.
Bon Dance Practice: Bon dance practice will be held Tuesday, August 12 and Wednesday, August 13, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Everyone is welcome to practice or learn from instructors in the inner circle.
Jodo Mission Happi Coats: Jodo Mission
will be selling its own happi coats. If you are interested you may contact Jodo Mission or come to the Bon Dance.
Above photo, people are getting ready for Bon Dance.
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Prayer is given before Bon Dance begins
Bon Dance is the fellowship part of ancestor
worship—Dancing is for everyone! Yummy
foods of all kinds! Games for children! Happi
coats and bon dance towels for sale
People enjoy
watching the
dancers happily
go around the
yagura.
Children enjoy
playing games.
1. When Someone Passed Away
Death ↓ Medical examination ↓ Call for a minister ↓ Makuragyo (Bedside service) ↓ Call for a mortuary ↓ Body pick-up ↓ Meeting with the funeral director at the mortuary ↓ Viewing service ↓ Cremation ↓ FUNERAL with the first 7th day service ↓ 49th day service Burial service ↓ Hatsubon (1st O-Bon) service ↓ 1 year memorial service
2. When Someone Is Very Close To Death
Call for a minister ↓ Rinju Gyogi (Last rites) ↓ Death ↓ Medical examination ↓ Call for a mortuary ↓ Body pick-up ↓ Meeting with the funeral director at the mortuary ↓ Viewing service ↓ Cremation ↓ FUNERAL with the first 7th day service
↓ 49th day service Burial service ↓ Hatsubon (1st O-Bon) service↓ ↓ 1 year memorial service
VISION FOR THE FUTURE (5)
By Rev. Yubun Narashiba
Japanese Buddhism in Hawaii has a very unique cultural background.
In Japan, Buddhist customs differ from village to village, town to town,
prefecture to prefecture. This is because Buddhism has been localized to fit to the custom
in each area. Since Japanese immigrants came to Hawaii from the various regions of
Japan, ceremonial customs are different according to the area where the family came from.
However, as time passes, those customs are becoming unclear and more confusing for the
younger generations. Because of this confusion, younger generations seem to be going
away from Buddhism by saying that Buddhism is hard to understand. Therefore, in this
article, I would like to explain the standard procedure of doing a service. As the first, let me
show you the two common procedures of having funerals among the members of Jodo
Mission of Hawaii.
Note: Above two service procedures are purely for informational purpose. We shall honor your family customs and
decisions to arrange a funeral service.
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**Editor’s note: This article is a reprint from our August 2011 issue. Because this article contains information you will need to
know some day, we will be reprinting it from time to time as space permits.
Thank You to All Who Participated with O-Toba Set Up
Thank you to all who came to help with the O-Toba set up and temple general
cleaning on July 13th. As you can see from the photos on this page, it is hard work to put
the O-Tobas up. This year we did not have very much help, but those who did come,
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
Richard Murashige Jon Karamatsu
Kenichi Shindo Clifford Miyamoto
Teruto Soma Neal Yanagihara
Dean Soma Rev. Yubun Narashiba
Glenn Soma Rev. Kanjun Nakano
Tim Smith
Also thank you to those who
helped clean our temple. This year
with less help, cleaning the Noko-
tsudo or Columbarium took longer
with so many incense burners to be
washed, dried and more incense put
back. Thank you to those who did
come to help:
Yoshiko Kitagawa
Tomoko Hisamoto
Jo Ann Matsuo
Harumi Monaire and daughter Michiko
Doris Soma
THANK YOU LADIES! and also thank you for helping cleanup after lunch.
Hope everyone enjoyed yourselves and that while you worked hard, you enjoyed the
fellowship, which is very important.
O-Bon Services:
THANK YOU Bishop Hara, Rev. Narashiba and Rev. Nakano for performing the
O-Bon services. Thank you to the Fujinkai ladies who prepared meals for the ministers and
workers during the three days of O-Bon services. Thank you to the Sr. YBA for providing
beautiful chrysanthemum potted plants for sale. Thank you to Calvin Hara and the Kiwanis
Club for directing traffic.
Did everyone have a wonderful O-Bon service and waiting for Bon Dance next
month!
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Such a beautiful sight when all the O-Tobas are up!
Sermon by Rev. Kanjun Nakano Given on June 22, 2014
Christians say that God lives within them through faith, but this does
not mean that God and man can become the same one. In Buddhism, we
have the Buddha nature within ourselves. If we realize the Buddhist truth,
we can become a Buddha. Buddhism is the way for everyone to find and
reveal the Buddha nature within himself or herself. By following the path of
Buddhism, everyone can attain the perfect peace and bliss as Buddha did so.
Well, St. Honen deeply considered the Buddha nature. St. Honen reached a conclusion
that the teachings should be practical rather than theoretical. However excellent the teachings
may be, they are of no use if we cannot practice to attain enlightenment. The final goal of Bud-
dhism is for everyone to attain enlightenment.
St. Honen showed us the way to reach the final goal of Buddhism. It is the Onenbutsu.
The Onenbutsu is to pray by reciting the Buddha’s name. Please recite the Buddha’s name as
many times as you possibly can in this world.
Generally speaking, we understand Buddhism in two ways. One way is through the
teachings of Buddha. The other way is through becoming an enlightened one like Buddha.
The former way is the same as in other religions such as Christianity. Buddhism is the
teaching which was revealed by Shakyamuni Buddha, an historical person. Christianity is the
gospel which was preached by Jesus Christ, also an historical person.
Modern studies show that not every Buddhist scripture is the teaching of Shakyamuni
Buddha. However, many Buddhists believe them all to be his teaching.
The way of becoming an enlightened one is unique to Buddhism as compared to Christi-
anity. Christianity is the teachings of God through Jesus Christ. But is is not the way of becom-
ing like God. Since God is the creator of this world, man cannot become like God.
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Guest Speaker at Father’s Day Service
Sunday, June 15, 2014
Richard Kimura who teaches Karate at Jodo Mission was
our guest speaker on June 15, 2014. Kimura sensei gave an
interesting talk about Karate as a form of marshal arts but he
also tries to teach his students not only the fighting part or self-
defense marshal arts but also you must have a heart—taking in-
to consideration mind, body and soul.
One of the most interesting thing he mentioned was that as a former NCIS
investigator, he said many of the criminals he encountered could have had their
lives changed or gone in a different direction if only they had gone to church or
had a teacher to guide them that it isn’t only the fighting that is important but
you must balance your mind, body and soul.
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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 Page 6
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
Guest Speaker: Corey Wong
Sunday Service: August 31, 2014
10:00 a.m. at Jodo Mission of Hawaii
Come and listen to Corey
Wong, Tai Chi instructor
give a talk and demon-
strate how tai chi relates to
our subject of mind, body
and soul.
EITAIKYO (Perpetual Memorial Service) for August
2 Sato Hirouji The Miyamasu Family The Hirouji Family The Nakamura Family Tadashi Nakamura Janet Okawa 3 Satsu Hashimoto The Hashimoto Family 4 Masaichi Harada Tsuru Nomura The Nomura Family Sumako Iguchi Kenkichi Kimoto Keisuke Masuda 5 Tori Matsubara The Matsubara Family Tahei Higashimura The Higashimura Family Mantaro Nitta Toichiro Tomita Yutaka Kubota 6 Toshiko Nishimura Yoshio Fujii 7 Kametaro Yano (2) The Yano Family The Yano, Konaka & Hayashi Family Chokichi Tanaka The Tanaka Family Aiko Fukuhara The Inouye Family Kikuno Yamane Kaneichi Kato 8 Takao Tsuda Kitae Yamanaka The Yamanaka Family Zentoku Takara Kame Taira Russel Hideo Uehara 9 Takeo Sato The Sato & Suzuki Family Hiro Yonemoto Tora Higashi The Hashimoto Baby Evelyn Murakami Yonemoto Family The Higashi Family 10 Seitaro Yamamoto The Suzuki & Yamamoto Family Takaji Shigeoka Kinichi Imai Saburo Nishimura Ito Fujita The Fujita Family Hideo Yamagata 11 Tomegusu Kotake
Kuranoshin Matsumoto Thomas Yoshiaki Shimizu 12 Hatsuichi Karimoto 13 Doris Kiyoko Miura 14 Ashizuchi Fujikami The Fujikami Family Shizuo Yokomichi The Yokomichi & Kondo Family Iichi Yanagihara Yoshijiro Iwamoto Shizuno Muraoka 15 Maki Hara The Hara Family Bishop Shoshin Inouye The Nose Family Sata Nitta Torano Toyoshiba Noboru Hamamura Hatsue Yamada Watanabe Robert Tokusai Kaneshiro 16 Masao Mizuno The Mizuno & Ohta Family Ume Miyamasu The Miyamasu Family The Masaki Family Yoneo Masuda The Masuda Family 17 Toshikata Shinagawa David Kenji Moritsugu Kiyoji Yamamoto Kazuyo Furukawa 18 Mitsuru Morisako The Morisako & Ishii Fami-ly Shinsuke Mito The Mito Family Fuji Yasumoto Hanayo Imai Miyuki Ono Toraichi Kurakake Rev. Ryokai Yamanaka Ruysuke Machida Haruo Okuhara 19 Eiko Maeda The Maeda Family Kiyoshi Hisamura Hisano Oyabu The Oyabu & Kondo Family Wakichi Suzui Family Takeshi Umetsu Sakae Matsumoto 20 Shizue Iwamoto Henry Hashimoto Kame Namihira Chie Nakagawa
21 Yoshisuke Sato The Sato & Suzuki Yutaka Tejima The Tejima Family Saka Kuniyuki Morishige Inage Misao Kuniyuki Yoshi Nishimura Toshiyuki Ogawa Toraichi Kurakake 22 Yuri Hironaka The Hironaka & Ishimoto Family Masuichi Tabata Miyoko Hokushin Takenouchi 23 Yoshisuke Masuda Raymond Totsuji Nishiyama 24 Kazuo Kano The Kano & Wataba Family Teisuke Hamamoto The Hamamoto Family Eizo Fukuda Tatsuki Heirakuji Sueko Onaga (2) 25 Tema Iuchi The Iuchi Family Kiku Masuda The Masuda & Asamura Family Etsuko Ohta The Ohta Family Koji Yasumoto Gladys Otsui Ikeda 26 Tadasuke Nishida Masaji Ishida Umeno Masuda Torao Maehara 27 Harumi Tasaka Shigeo Kobashigawa The Kobashigawa Family 28 Hitoshi Mizuno The Mizuno & Ohta Family Seikuro Hisamura Shichiemon Ebisuzaki (2) Hana Noyama 29 Tadashi Higashi The Higashi Family Kenji Hamada The Hamada Family Atsushi Fujita The Fujita Family Masahiko Miyagi 30 Thomas Takeshi Tanaka Elsie Kikuya Tatei
Katsumi Nishimoto Sojoro Takamura Rikiichi Yagi 31 Toshiyasu Misawa (2) Misawa & Watanabe Family Misawa Family Akira Misawa Riyo Yano Edith Kiyoko Kaneshiro
Obituaries The Jodo Mission of Hawaii
extends its sincere condo-
lences to the family mem-
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following members who have
recently left this world for
the Pure Land.
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Matsue Arakaki 92
Miyoko Yagi 94
Mitsue K. Ikuta 97
Shogo Kubo 54
Sadako Izumi 69
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