Jodo Mission of Hawaii

Bulletin - MARCH 2016

(#1232-0316)

Jodo Mission of Hawaii 1429 Makiki St.

Honolulu HI 96814

Address Service Requested

Our Master Honen Kiku TV: March 12 at 8:00 pm

The English version of the animated

depiction of the life and teaching of Jodo

Shu founder, Honen Shonin, entitled “Our

Master St. Honen”, created by our Grand

Temple—Chion-in, will be shown on Kiku

TV on Saturday, March 12, 2016 at 8:00

p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

This movie is part of Jodo Shu’s ob-

servance of the 120th Anniversary of the arrival of Jodo Shu’s pioneer ministers—Rev.

Taijo Matsuo and Rev. Gakuo Okabe (in

1894).

The movie was shown around the same

time in March 2015 but the animation was

only in Japanese. So please make every

effort to make time to watch this interesting

movie!

VISITATION BY TAISHO UNIVERSIT Y OF TOKYO, JAPAN

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Eleven students from Josai

International University of

Chiba Prefecture, Japan also

came to Jodo Mission on Feb-

ruary 14, 2016. They were

accompanied by Professor

Sadayuki Tokoro. The stu-

dents were very much inter-

ested in meeting temple

members. They too enjoyed

the spam musubi! While en-

joying refreshments, they

were able to talk to our mem-

bers. They enjoyed Maui dur-

ing their visit and they want to

come back to Hawaii.

Jodo Mission was privileged to have visitors from two universities from Japan on Sunday, Janu-

ary 14, 2016: Taisho University Professor Jundo Nagashima and coordinator Toshimichi

Sakurai accompanied 16 students to Hawaii. It is so nice to be so young! The future Buddhist

ministers and nuns of Tendai, Shingon and Jodo Shu. Bishop Gensho Hara is an alumnus of

Taisho University and the students heard a lecture by Bishop Hara . Rev. Norimasa Nakamura,

visiting graduate student studying at the University of Hawaii, is also an alumnus of Taisho Uni-

versity. The students were so happy to be in Hawaii and they enjoyed our spam musubi!

Nehan-e Service (memorial service for Shakyamuni Buddha) was held at this time and the stu-

dents were fortunate to see the beautiful scroll of when Buddha passed away. This scroll is

taken out once a year for this memorial service.

VISITATION BY JOSAI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSIT Y

Spring Higan Chutoba Form (彼岸会中塔婆申し込み用紙)

Your Name(お名前) : Phone（電話）: ______________

Name of Deceased （亡くなった方のお名前）：

1.

2.

3.

4.

One Chutoba is $7 X Total of Chutoba = Total $

（中塔婆1本7ドル） （本数） （合計）

Please make checks payable to “Jodo Mission of Hawaii”. DEADLINE: Sunday, March 15, 2016

FOR OFFICE USE ONLY

Order accepted by Date accepted / / (In person/ Mail / By phone)

Received by Date paid / / (Cash/ Check # ) Write

Spring Higan-e Service

The word “Higan” literally means “the other shore” in Japanese. One shore represents this world which we are in, and the other shore “Higan” represents Amida Buddha’s Pure Land. The river represents the bad mind we all possess. The concept is that we practice the teaching to reach the other shore across the river.

We have two Higan seasons in a year. One in the spring, the other in autumn, as Higan is held during the week of the spring and autumn equinox. Shan Tao, one of the high ranking priests of Jodo Buddhism in China said that the sun sets due west during the equinox thus it is a good opportunity to think about Buddha’s Pure Land which exists far away in the west, as well as appreciate our ancestors who are also there.

Please join us in crossing the river to the other shore as we think about Buddha’s Pure Land and respect for our ancestors. Our Higan Service will be held:

Sunday, March 27 at 10 am

On that day, Chutoba prayers will be conducted during the service. If you request a Chutoba, please fill out the form on this page, and send it to or drop it off at the Jodo Mission office. One Chutoba is SEVEN dollars. Please make your check payable to “Jodo Mission of Hawaii.” Page 3

Higan Service

March 27 at 10 a.m.

____ I plan to attend service

____ I do not plan to attend

Tonkatsu Sandwich: Have you ever eaten a

tonkatsu sandwich? It is almost like eating tonkatsu

with rice, except it is between two slices of bread.

Chinatsu Maeda (left photo; husband is

Tatsuji Maeda of Japan Memorial) will

be here to help make tonkatsu sandwich

for the Fujinkai-sponsored Food Fair on

Sunday March 13, 2016 . Food Fair will begin at 10:30 am (after 10 am

service) and will end at 12:30 pm.

Photo on right is a sample of what the

tonkatsu bento will look like. The slices

of pork in this sample is pretty large and quite

filling! As you can see from the photos, it is fried,

patted down to get out

the excess oil and a special tonkatsu sauce

is poured on the

tonkatsu. Very

delicious!

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HAWAII STATE JODO SHU FUJINKAI SCHOLARSHIP

Namiye Nakamura Scholarship The Hawaii State Jodo Shu Fujinkai offers a $1,000 Namiye Nakamura Scholarship to a Hawaii

high school graduate or a member of the temple who wishes to further his/her education toward a de-

gree or advanced degree in an accredited college or university.

The applicant for the scholarship must meet the following criteria:

1. Priority will be given to an applicant who participated regularly in his/her Jodo Mis-

sion temple activities.

2. Be an active member of his/her respective Jodo Mission.

3. The applicant should be a student graduating from a high school in Hawaii. If there are no gradu-

ating students applying, any applicant continuing his/her education may receive

the scholarship.

4. Be accepted at an accredited university or institution of higher learning.

5. Possess good moral character and leadership potential.

6. Submit an application by April 15th.

The family or legal guardian of the applicant must currently be a member of his/

her respective Jodo Mission. Financial need will be considered. Determination of the

scholarship recipient will be made by a Scholarship Committee.

If there are any questions about the scholarship, please consult Rev. Yubun Narashiba at

949-3995.

Genera l Membership Meet ing On Sunday, January 24, 2016 at the General Membership Meeting, Presi-

dent Jon Riki Karamatsu thanked the membership for their support of the temple

events not only in monetary contributions but also volunteering their time and en-

ergy for the recent mochi making in December, Bon Dance in August and Bazaar in Octo-

ber. He read a list of 19 new members in 2015. He asked for everyone’s continued sup-

port in 2016.

He spoke of gratitude in Buddhism and to focus on what we do have—get some sun-

light, go walking, this is a beautiful world, think positively. There is a lot of positive things

in life, don’t dwell on the past and go forward. Things that are troubling you may not be as

bad as you may think if you just try to think positively! Go walking around the block or try

your sense of smell with aroma therapy you might feel better.

Rev. Narashiba announced that 2019 Jodo Shu will celebrate 125 years in Hawaii.

In commemoration of this event, a tour to Japan in 2019 is being planned with a visit to

the Grand Temple Chion-in. The tour will cover the path which St. Honen took. So his sug-

gestion is to save your money and let’s go!

Shinnenkai—New Year’s Party: At the Shinnenkai, we did not have any Hyakusai

members (100 year olds). There may be a few 100 year olds members out there who for

some reason or another could not attend. Whoever did not attend the New Year’s Party

missed out on a very nice party. There was lucky number, and of course BINGO and won-

derful prizes. And the food was delicious! Aki Nishiyama and ladies did a wonderful job of

nishime, miso tako, sushi, sekihan, fried mahimahi, BQ chicken, gunlo mein, vegetable

tempura, potato-mac salad and wonderful deserts!

We had entertainment by Duane Miyashiro and his wife and

Sophie Narashiba playing the koto. There was

special song where you could hear the wood-

pecker tapping and the river water swishing.

Then there was BINGO and lucky number.

Below Jo Ann Matsuo worked with Skyler,

Sophie and A’Marie to call out BINGO numbers

and Skyler, Sophie and A-Marie passed out

wonderful prizes! Please join us next year for

our annual New Year’s Party!

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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.

Margaret Namiko Morikawa 95

Douglas Hiroshi Shishido 84

Jodo Mission Office Hours:

Monday to Saturday

8am—5pm

Sunday & Holidays

8am—3pm

Phone: 949-3995

Website: www.jodo.us

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What is “Perpetual Memorial

Service?” (Eitaikyo)

This record of a perpetual memorial service and is called Eitaikyo in Japanese. When the date of death occurs for a person listed on this record, the ministers pray for that individual during the morn-ing service. The prayers will continue each year for as long as Jodo Mission exists. Anyone can be included in it. You may put your own name on the list, too. This also helps when it is difficult to have memorial services. We also wel-come you to attend the morning service at 930am.

How to apply

Stop by the office, and fill out the application form. Each name costs $200. After the application is accepted, the name will be listed on the record.

Rev. Yubun Narashiba Head Minister

Rev. Kanjun Nakano Resident Minister

Bishop Gensho Hara Lahaina, Maui

Membership Dues (Gojikai)

REMINDER: If you have not

paid your membership dues

($60) this year, please be sure

to do so by making your check

payable to Jodo Mission of Ha-

waii (mail to 1429 Makiki

Street, Honolulu, HI 96814).

Thank you.

Perpetual Memorial Service (Eitaikyo) for March

1. Fusa Sato The Sato & Suzuki Families The Matsushita Family 2. Kazuo Ishizaki Haruo Shigeoka Masao Hayashida Setsuko Tsuda 3 Hideo Shoji The Shoji Family Yoshima Takabayashi (2) The Nanbara Family The Tanigawa, Hirano,& ’ Hisano Family The Namba Family 4. Kuma Tabata Mume Yamamoto Kuni Ishikawa 5. Matsue Nakamura Yukio Hisamoto The Hayashi Family Toshisuke Terada Margaret Chieko Iwamoto Sadae Kanehira Shigeno Toyofuku 6. Bishop Enjo Ito Hideo Kubota Kaoru Kusunoki Chiyo Iwamoto Tsugio Aoki (2) Ruiko Kaita 7. Kiku Yagi The Yagi Family Makoto Tanaka The Tanaka Family Hiromu Higa The Higa Family Kikue Tanaka The Tanaka Family Kenichi Kinoshita Masao Hashimoto Hideo Sugihara The Sugihara Family Kamado Taira 8. Hatsuno Daitoku The Daitoku & Fujimoto Family Yoshi Imamoto The Iwamoto & Kawakami Family Gisaburo Kawamura The Kawamura Family Satoru Takitani Tadao Yoshimoto 9. Sumie Chikamoto The Ota Family Seiichi Takaoka Masao Watanabe Gohichi Hifumi Sam Takaoka

Toshikado Kimura 10. Chotaro Fujise Fujise & Kobayashi Family

Fushi Shintaku The Isogai Family

Harriet Nomiyama De St. Martin 11. Seikichi Teramoto The Teramoto Family

Mami Kumagaya Shizuko Kubota Yoshiko Oshiro Ono Iwamoto Kazue Kishida

12. Taikichi Yamane Clara Asami Tominaga Ruth Chieko Sakuda

13. Benshiro Tanimura

The Tanimura Family Kunisuke Higashimura Mume Yanagihara Seitaro Komiya Tetsumi Fujimoto (2) Rui Hara The Hara Family Fujino Imada Barney Rio Hiroshi Higaki Kathleen Kazuko Yoshimoto

14. Eijiro Hara Satoshi Shinagawa Yuku Nakamura

15. Hachizo Aoki The Aoki & Kimura Family Naoyuki Hara Hara Family Asajiro Asai Omoyo Nagano The Nagano Family Hajime Aoyama Harunori Ohara Suematsu Namba

16. Hanako Kanehira The Kanehira Family Shigeo Sakuda (2) Chizuko Yasumoto Masato Kawano Robert Katsuhiko Sumida Kikutsuchi Tarumoto Calvin Sakae Murashige

17. Seiichi Yanagihara The Yanagihara Family Tadako Kunimoto Kunimoto & Nago Family Edwin Seimu Matsumori(2) Mieko Nomiyama Tsuchiyo Fujimoto Tokuichi Ohara

18. Moyo Iwamoto Matsuyo Hamada Inouye Eisaku Asaumi Shuso Saiki George Aoki Hisayo Kawaoka

19. Umeki Matsumori The Matsumori Family Tsuru Fukuda Ototsuchi Yamanaka Yamanaka Family Ikuzo Kuniyuki Yoshinobu Yamato

20. Ichiyuki Mizuno The Mizuno & Ohta Family Asakichi Iwamoto Iwamoto Family Zennoshin Yoshioka Masue Yagi

21. Masuji Kajioka

The Kajioka & Morita Family Shima Nakagawa The Nakagawa Family Bishop Shinjun Shimizu Gonsuke Nakahara

22. Asano Fujikami The Fujikami Family Suegusu Matsuo The Matsuo Family Ishi Onaga The Onaga & Nakamura Family Heijiro Furumoto Ito Nakamoto Rev. Shutetsu Uenoyama Chiyoko Umezu Yoshikata Hayashi Jean Yachiyo Soma Baba 23. Miko Kawano The Kawano Family Kazu Nakai The Nakai Family Midori Uno Sadami Suehisa George Choji Miyagawa 24. Rikuo Masuoka The Masuoka Family Hanako Yanagihara Torae Miyao Shigeki Hirono 25. Chiyo Nishimura The Nishimura Family Kimie Umemoto (2) The Umemoto Family Tetsubei Ishimoto The Ishimoto & Akimoto Family Nobuo Nakamoto The Nakamoto Family

Kichizo & Kikue Miura Shizuno Uyehara Mizuko Sankichi Umemoto Suyekichi Watanabe 26. Yukiko Takeda The Takeda Family Satoru Iguchi Giichi Hayashi Stephen Toshiichi Kotake Howard Masuji Tasaka Kiyo Ota 27. Yukitsuchi Morikawa The Morikawa Family Kiyoe Kakehashi Asae Okamura 29. Muta Chinen (2) Satoshi Ukeda Shizuno Ebisuzaki 30. Bishop Shinko Nakajima Setsu Yamamoto Betsy Yoshiko Kubota Kikuyo Lila Uyeharu Betty Sun Ogata 31. Kamenosuke Kinoshita The Kinoshita Family Aki Fukuda The Fukuda Family Nao Fujita The Fujita Family The Nakamura Family

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