O-Toba Set Up & Temple General Cleaning

Sunday, July 3, 2016 at 8:00 a.m.

YOUR HELP IS NEEDED!
Below is the beginning of the O-Toba set up. The O-Toba foundation were being set
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. We must set up 500+ O-tobas on July
3rd. Please help! Thank you.

O-Bon Service Schedule

Friday, July 15
10:00 am (Hatsubon only)

2:00 pm & 7:00 pm

Saturday, July 16
10:00 am (Hatsubon only)

2:00 pm & 7:00 pm

Sunday, July 17
10:00 am

It takes a lot of people to set up the O-Tobas. 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!

Address Service Requested

Jodo Mission of Hawaii

1429 Makiki St.
Honolulu HI 96814
(#1236-0716)

Bulletin - JULY 2016

Jodo Mission of Hawaii

O-Bon Service Schedule

O-Bon Services will be held as follows:
Friday, July 15

10:00 am (Hatsubon Families Only)

2:00 pm & 7:00 pm

Saturday, July 16

10:00 am (Hatsubon Families Only)

2:00 pm & 7:00 pm

Sunday, July 17-

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 17 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 15 and July 16. 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 (no appointments during service hours):
Tuesday, July 5 to Thursday July 14: 8:00 am to 9:15 am
Fri/Sat July 15-16: 8:00 am to 9:15 am; 11:00 am to 1:15 pm
3:00 pm to 6:15 pm
Sunday, July 17: 8:00 am to 9:15 am

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
office. Thank you for your understanding and support.

envelopes are available in the

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 15: 9:00 am to 7:30 pm
Saturday, July 16: 9:00 am until supply runs out

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

mately 6 inches width and 7 inches in depth. Space is so precious! See photo
at right. In 2014 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
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Do you know of any students or adults who are willing to

perform at our Sunday Services? If you know of a student or an adult

who can play a musical instrument, i.e. piano, ukulele, guitar, flute, etc., sing, dance
the hula, ballet, Japanese dance, etc. and would like to perform at one of our Sunday
Service, please contact Rev. Narashiba at 949-3995. We would like to see students
especially or any adult share their talents before Amida Buddha
and our members.
Sharing ones talents
can be enlightening to everyone! We can all learn what a
bassoon looks like and how it
sounds, we can learn about
classical music, Hawaiian music, Japanese music, see and hear a shamisen, see and hear a koto,
see and hear an ukulele, etc.
We can also learn about Hawaiian music through the hula. Hawaii is really a
unique place. When students go to college outside of Hawaii, other students want
to learn the hula or sing some Hawaiian songs or have a luau or want to know what is
a luau!
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The Untold Story

Internment of Japanese Amercans in Hawaii

On Sunday, May 29, 2016, Les Goto, volunteer
with the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii again came
to show a 30-minute film of The Untold Story of the
internment of Japanese Americans in Hawaii. On January 17 we saw a 15 minute film. There is also an hour
DVD. Also in attendance was Jane Kuwahara, a producer of the film; Penny Acheson, another volunteer,
Audrey Kuramoto and Nate Gyotoku, employees of
the JCCH.
One story Les mentioned was at an internment
camp in December 1942, a Sgt. Lancelot Moran purchased Christmas cards and postage stamp for everyone
at the internment camp so they could write to their loved ones for Christmas and everyone was so appreciative of Sgt. Morans kindness. It was their best Christmas!
They brought with them copies of the DVD as well as books that were available
at the JCCH. They encouraged everyone to visit the JCCH and see the display on the
Internment as well as Okagesama de.
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Haleiwa Bon Dance: July 8 and 9, 2016.

We are ordering a van to go to

Haleiwa on Saturday, July 9, leaving Jodo Mission of Hawaii at
4:00 p.m. and leaving Haleiwa at 11:00 p.m. to return to Jodo Mission of Hawaii. Please contact Jodo Mission 949-3995 if you
wish to ride the .bus. Jodo Mission members will be given first
priority. Others on a first come, first serve basis. Thank you.

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 19 and 20 in the mornings and early afternoon for cutting vegetables for yaki soba, stuffing sushi rice
into inari cones and packaging them for sale, assist with maki
sushi, 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
serve turkey jook yaki soba. Also, we will make oshizushi and also make variety packs of different sushi.
This year new member Chinatsu Maeda is thinking of
making gyoza for sale. Whatever time you can spare,
In order to make all these inari sushi on this page, it takes a lot of peo- please call Sally Hayashi at
the temple on weekends at
ple stuffing and packaging them as well as cooking and cooling the
rice, adding vinegar and vegetables. Your help is needed! Thank you. 949-3995 or leave a message
and she will call you back.

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

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 Mission office and leave your name
that you are willing to help! They
also can use some dish washers
during the evenings.

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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 offerings are meritorious, but it is most required
that the family willingly recite Namu Amida
Butsu (I take refuge in Amida Buddha) bearing 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 impermanent 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 2016
Anniversaries
Year of Passing
1st year
2015
3rd
2014
7th
2010
13th
2004
17th
2000
23rd
1994
25th
1992
27th
1990
33rd
1984
37th
1980
43rd
1974
47th
1970
50th
1967
100th
1917

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Fathers Day at
Jodo Mission
As a special treat for
Fathers Day, the
members heard the
performance by Sara
Toma who is a freshman at Kalani High
School and Rev.
Kanjun Nakano. Rev. Nakano explained that the
violin is made out of wood and it has a varnish on it
and it is the varnish that helps make the sounds. It is
an instrument that comes from Italy.
Sara and Rev. Nakano practiced many times and their performance was excellent! Everyone enjoyed it. Above is a photo of Sara, her parents, Edward and Janet
Toma, and Rev. Nakano.
After the performance, there was a delicious lunch prepared by the Fujinkai
ladies: Sekihan musubi, ume and daikon leaf musubi, nishime, tsukemono, namasu,
miso fried chicken, cherries, watermelon, jello dessert, zenzai (azuki beans with
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mochi). What a special luncheon! And what a special Fathers Day!

2016 BON DANCE SCHEDULE

OF JODO SHU TEMPLES

Island

Temple

Oahu

Betsuin
Haleiwa

Big Island
[Hawaii]

Maui

Kauai

Phone No.

Times

949-3995

Dates
Aug 19 to 20

637-4382

July 8 to 9

7/8:
7/9:

August 6

8:00 pm

July 16
August 20

8:00 pm

August 13
July 9

7:00 pm

August 6

6:00 pm

August 19-20

7:30 pm

June 17

8:00 pm

(808) 661-4304

July 2

8:00 pm

(808) 822-4319

June 17 to 18

7:30 pm

(808) 742-6735

July 29 to 30

7:30 pm

Call Rev. Miyazaki

(808) 936-7828
(808) 935-6996

Kurtistown
Hilo
Hakalau
Hamakua
Kohala
Hawi
Kahului
Wailuku
Lahaina
Kapaa
Koloa

(808) 936-7828
Call Rev. Wansa
(808) 775-0965
Call Rev. John Hara
(808) 244-0066

6:30 pm 9:30 pm
8 pm 10 pm
8 pm 11 pm

7 or 8 pm (not set)
7:00 pm

Obituaries
Jodo Mission Office Hours:
Monday to Saturday
8am5pm
Sunday & Holidays
8am3pm

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.
Hanako Kume
Kimiko Hayashi
Francis Tadashi Higuchi
Amy Shizue Hasama
Kazuma O(gata
Wallace Itsuo Wasada
Esther Fusae Nishimura

Phone: 949-3995
Website: www.jodo.us

Bishop Gensho Hara

Lahaina, Maui
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Rev. Yubun Narashiba

Head Minister

Rev. Kanjun Nakano

Resident Minister

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EITAIKYO (Perpetual Memorial Service) for July

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
Akiko Tamaki

4 Setsuyo Sugihara (2)

The Sugihara Family

Sumiyo Yamanaka
Kajo Teruya (2)
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
Reginald Takahiro
Tengan

11 Toyo Nanbu

The Nanbu Family

Fusa Murakami (2)
The Murakami Family
The Yamamoto Family
Shigeyo Ipponsugi
Iwao Asaumi
Nancy Yoshiko Ohara

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
Kazue Ohara

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 (2)
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
Yetsuo Higa

31 Haruo Nakano

Kameyo Hayashi
Usano Yamane
Katsumi Yano
Evelyn Chieko Fujita
Nobu Namba

8:00 O-Toba Set Up &

General Cleanup Day

NO SUNDAY SERVICE

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19

12

Tue

27

20

13

Sept 11:
Sept 16-18:

July 15-17: O-Bon Services at Jodo Mission of Hawaii

Aug 16-17: Bon Dance Practice at Jodo Mission 7-9 pm
Aug 19-20: Bon Dance at Jodo Mission of Hawaii

NO meeting in July

Fujinkai
Meeting

28

21

14

Thu

29

22

15

16

Sat

No Sewing
Circle in July

Sewing Circle

No Sunday
School in July

Sunday School

30

23

10:00 am Hatsubon Families

2:00 pm and 7:00 pm

O - B O N S ER V I C E S

Fri

Phone: 949-3995
Website: www.jodo.us

Jodo Mission of Hawaii

Jodo Shu 2016 Calendar: June: The gift of a smile is he

best encouragement for othersand for yourself too.
July: Treasure unexpected relationships; they make you
what you are.

Wed

YBA: No YBA Meeting in July

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18

11

Mon

July 2016

Keiro & Grandparents Day

Laypersons & Fujinkai Convention on Maui

10:00 Sunday Service

NO SUNDAY SERVICE
8:00 O-Toba Kuzushi

EVENTS:

31

24

Clean-up After Service

10:00 O-Bon Service

17

10:00 Sunday Service

10

Sun

9:30am Morning Service

Everyday