(#1247-0617)

Jodo Mission of Hawaii 1429 Makiki Street Honolulu HI 96814 Address Service Requested

Jodo Mission of Hawaii

Bulletin - JUNE 2017

Island Temple Phone No. Dates Times

Oahu Betsuin

949-3995 O-Bon Service

Bon Dance

July 21 & 22 July 23 Aug 18 to 19

2:00 pm/7:00 pm

10:00 am

6:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Haleiwa

637-4382 O-Bon Service Bon Dance Toro Nagashi

July 14 & 15 July 14 & 15 July 15

6:00 pm

7:00 pm

9:00 pm

Big Island [Hawaii]

Kurtistown Call Rev. Miyazaki

(808) 936-7828

(808) 935-6996

(808) 936-7828

O-Bon / Bon Dance August 5 6:00 pm / 7:00 pm

Hilo

O-Bon / Bon Dance O-Bon Service

July 8 July 9

6:00 pm / 7:00 pm

10:00 am

Hakalau O-Bon / Bon Dance August 19 6:00 pm / 7:00 pm

Hamakua Call Rev. Wansa

(808) 775-0965

O-Bon / Bon Dance August 12 5:00 pm / 6:00 pm

Kohala O-Bon / Bon Dance July 8 5:00 pm / 7:00 pm

Hawi O-Bon / Bon Dance August 5 5:00 pm / 6:00 pm

Maui Kahului Call Rev. John Hara

(808) 244-0066

O-Bon / Bon Dance July 28 & 29 6:30 pm / 7:30 pm

Wailuku O-Bon / Bon Dance June 16 6:30 pm / 7:30 pm

Lahaina (808) 661-4304 O-Bon Service

Bon Dance Toro Nagashi

June 30 July 1 July 1 July 1

6:00 pm

6:30 pm

8:00 pm

7:30 pm

Kauai Kapaa O-Bon Service Bon Dance Toro Nagashi

June 18 June 23 & 24 July 2

10:00 am

7:30 pm 7:30 pm

Call Rev. Ishikawa

(808) 742-6735

Koloa O-Bon Service Bon Dance

July 30 August 4 & 5

10:30 am

7:30 pm

2017 O-BON AND BON DANCE SCHEDULE OF JODO SHU TEMPLES

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O-Bon Service Schedule

Fri/Sat, July 21-22 – 10:00 am (Hatsubon Families Only)

2:00 pm & 7:00pm

Sunday, July 23 – 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 held on Sunday, July 23 at 10am. Af-ter Closing Service, cleanup will begin. Help is needed.

Parking Attendants Needed: We are in need of at least 6 parking attendants for each 2 pm and 7 pm services on July 21 and July 22. 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 Wednesday, July 12, 2017 to 9:15 a.m. on Sunday, July 23, 2017 (however please note we will not schedule any private service appointments during the above-referenced O-Bon Service hours on July 21, 22 and 23).

June 28: DEADLINE: Chutoba & Chochin Orders July 9: O-Toba Set Up & General Cleaning -YOUR HELP IS NEEDED Aug.18-19: Bon Dance

Important Dates

Arigato for your many orders of O-Tobas or large memorial sticks. We are

happy you remembered your deceased family members and we will do our best to see that your O-Tobas are prepared at your request. Rev. Narashiba has been working hard to fulfill your requests as shown on this page.

Photo at right shows Rev. Narashiba with brush in one hand, ink in the other, and a hard copy of the information on paper as he concentrates to write each character on the O-Toba. Sometimes he has to redo them if the paint smears because of weather or the

surface of the board is not smooth or possibly the blade of the sander was dull. Like the O-Toba above left, the entire O-Toba will need to be re-sanded and rewritten.

Please remember to also visit your O-Tobas after July 12 when the O-Tobas will be ready for your visit to welcome your deceased family members during O-Bon. Thank you.

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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 valua-ble thing.

4) Candle: A candle light is showing 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 Eggplant (using sticks) for them to return to the Pure Land slowly.

7) Mizu-noko: The fresh cut eggplant and cu-cumber 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 limit-lessly. (Optional)

9) Nishime without meat: A traditional Japa-nese food used as monasterial 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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Oahu Jodo Shu Rengo Fujinkai Convention

On April 23, 2017, the Haleiwa Jodo Shu Fujinkai and Honolulu Jodo Shu Fujinkai met and held their Convention at Haleiwa Jodo Mission. The Haleiwa ladies were delighted that Bishop Gensho

Hara was able to make time from his busy schedule to join this Convention. It is always nice for Haleiwa and Honolulu Fujinkai ladies to meet each year. Both our groups are getting smaller and always thinking how we can make our groups expand. Any suggestions? Keiro ladies were from Haleiwa and

Honolulu Fujinkai and also Bishop Hara Convention group photo; Officers and ministers were given leis made by Haleiwa Sunday School.

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Mother ’s Day Photos

Father’s Day Celebration June 18th

We always remember our Mothers, but do we always remember our Fathers?

A concert is being planned for Father’s Day.

Please come to our Father’s Day Ser-vice and honor your father by your pres-ence on June 18th at 10 a.m.

On May 14, the Sunday School surprised everyone with a wonderful concert. Takeru Nii was the MC. Declan Guris read a beautiful Mother’s Day poem he wrote him-self. Sophie Narashiba played the koto (“Sousei Daiichiban”), Himawari Kaneda played the piano (“Valses” by Chopin), Sara Toma played the violin and on one song was accompanied by Rev. Nakano on the piano.

All the female attendees were treated to a carna-tion for Mother’s Day!

Then to Ikoi Hall for a wonderful Chinese luncheon by the Sunday School and Intermediate YBA. THANK YOU Sunday School and In-termediate YBA for a wonderful Mother’s Day!

All the youngsters are so talented! If you did not attend, you missed a wonderful program! They all prac-ticed so hard and it showed with each of their performances! Thank you Declan, Sophie, Himawari, Sara and Rev. Nakano.

Declan left reading his Mother’s Day-poem; Sophie right on koto; Himawari far right on piano; Sara below with her violin.

Smiles from Mrs. Kitagawa & Mrs. Miyamoto

Smiles from Mrs. Hisamoto & Mrs. Nishiyama

OBON CHUTOBA ORDER FORM

Obon Services will be held Friday, July 21st to Sunday, July 23rd, at Jodo Mission of Hawaii DEADLINE: June 28, 2017

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 21 2 pm or 7 pm

Sat, July 22 2 pm or 7 pm

Sun, July 23 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 28, 2017

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.____________________________________________________________

SMALL(小)＿＿_＿×＄7.00 = TOTAL（合計）＄______________

FOR OFFICE USE ONLY Order accepted by : _______________ Date accepted : _______/______/ 2017 ( In person / Mail / By phone ) Received by : _______________ Date paid : _______/______/ 2017 (Cash / Check # __________ ) Write_______

( Cut )

FOR OFFICE USE ONLY Order accepted by : _______________ Date accepted : _______/______/ 2017 ( In person / Mail / By phone ) Received by : _______________ Date paid : _______/______/ 2017 (Cash / Check # __________ ) Write_______

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So sorry no large chochin. We are un-able to obtain the large chochins. We have only a limited supply. Please call 949-3995 to inquire about the large chochin. Thank you.

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

Jodo Mission of Hawaii Has Many Repair Work

Our temple was built in 1932 and as many of you have noticed repairs need to be done to maintain the temple, like leaky roofs, cement cracking, peeling paint, rusty roof, tiles that need to be maintained, etc. In addition, somethings may be harder to replace. There may not be people in Hawaii who can do the maintenance required. To the right is a manlift used recently to try to detect where the rain water was coming into the women’s restroom? You may have seen buckets in the women’s restroom. Soon we will need to repaint our temple. All these repairs costs a lot of money. Our Board of Directors, including Rev. Narashiba, have to deal with many of these maintenance problems as well as keep our temple operating safely.

If anyone can help by serving on our Board or have any suggestions to the many maintenance problems, we can certain-ly use your assistance.

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 Masanori Matsumoto Rehei Matsumoto Tsuyo Matsumoto

6 Chujiro Nishimura The Nishimura Family Matsu Wakagi The Wakagi Family Tomo Daitoku (2) Daitoku & Fujimoto Families Daitoku & Kawauchi Families Shinichi Fukuda The Fukuda Family Miyoshi Takara

7 Ayako Morikawa The Morikawa Family Taki Asai Kichi Kunihisa Shina Kotake Yukiyo Matsumoto Robert Hidenori Iwai

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 Miyoshi Okamura The Okamura Family

13 Charlse Harumi Takabayashi (2) Jeane Sachiko Ebisuzaki Sakaye Ogata

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 Mitsue Ikuta George Tsuneharu Masaki

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

20 Hisataro Yanagihara The Yanagihara Family Naoji Yokoyama Moushi Kobashigawa Kame Uyehara Ichitaro Matsuda Hisakichi Yamamoto Wade Kenji Sakai The Ashimine Family

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 Edwin Kyoichiro Arakaki

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 Kurakake Dorothy S. Kobayashi Harry Wakaso Iwai

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

26 Fuji Yano The Yano, Konaka,

& Hayashi Families Taizo 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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