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Transcript of Jodo Mission Bulletin - January 2015
Jodo Mission of Hawaii
Bulletin - JANUARY 2015
(#1218-0115)
Jodo Mission of Hawaii 1429 Makiki St.
Honolulu HI 96814
Address Service Requested
***New Year’s Greetings *** Gensho Hara, Bishop
Shinnen Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu! Reciting Namu Amida
Butsu, embraced by the great compassion and wisdom of Amida Bud-
dha, I wish you and your family a happy and peaceful New Year!
In welcoming the New Year, I ask all of you to renew your commit-
ment to the temple, join in temple services and activities, and most importantly recite “Namu Amida Butsu” in your daily lives for a happy and fruitful life embraced by Amida
Buddha.
My sincerest appreciation goes to all of you—our members, ministers, families, and
friends—for your devotion and support in our temples, where we gather to recite “Namu
Amida Butsu.”
Above the entrance of the Betsuin, engraved in Sanskrit letters, are the words by Dr.
Kaigyoku Watanabe, a renowned Buddhist scholar and devotee of the Nenbutsu, “Sacred
Temple of Pure Land Buddhism.”
Every place where we call Amida Buddha’s Name is a sacred temple. But we are espe-
cially fortunate to have our temples—where our ancestors and loved ones went to during
times of celebration and happiness as well as trouble and sadness—as a place to continue
to join together and practice our Nenbutsu. Reciting “Namu Amida Butsu,” we are grateful to Amida Buddha who hears our prayers, our gratitude, and our woes. Reciting “Namu
Amida Butsu,” we are released from suffering and are able to find peace knowing that
Amida Buddha hears us calling his Name. [cont inued on page 2]
New Year’s Greetings
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Continuation of Bishop Hara’s message
This has been possible because of generations of dedication to Jodo Shu in Hawaii,
beginning with the arrival of our pioneer ministers of Hawaii Jodo Shu, Rev. Taijo Mat-
suo and Rev. Gakuo Okabe, 120 years ago. On September 20, 2014, we observed the
120th Commemorative Service celebrating the arrival of Rev. Matsuo and Rev. Okabe at
Hamakua Jodo Mission, the first Japanese Buddhist temple built in Hawaii. Looking back at our 120-year history of Jodo Buddhism in Hawaii, I am overjoyed that our
Nenbutsu teaching has helped the Japanese immigrants overcome the hardships of their
daily lives and raised families and generations of Nenbutsu practitioners. Today, in our
busy lives, the Nenbutsu is a place where we can retreat and find serenity guided by
Amida Buddha.
In 2015, we will observe various commemorative projects to continue to celebrate 120 years of Hawaii Jodo Shu. One of the highlights being a seminar and symposium of
Jodo Buddhism and its future in Hawaii, on March 14 and 15 at the Betsuin. Please make
every effort to attend this symposium.
In closing, may I ask for your continued support and dedication. May the compassion-
ate light of Amida Buddha guide us always.
With Gassho,
Gensho Hara, Bishop
Message from Kyodan Board President
Dear Friends,
Aloha! I hope you had a year filled with great memories with family and
friends. Even among some of our sad and challenging experiences, we have
grown stronger and more grateful of life. As practitioners of Buddhism, we are
able to overcome difficult situations and appreciate everything around us. Through the teach-
ings, we understand how our existence can play a role in spreading love and compassion.
Thank you for every kind gesture you have done for others and all you have contributed to our
world. When it is our time to move on to the afterlife, we will leave everlasting imprints of
our love here with all those we have touched and we will continue to do the same wherever we
go to next. I wish you a wonderful 2015 and may peace and joy be with you forever.
Love, Jon Riki Karamatsu
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New Year’s Greetings
Akemashite Omedeto Gozaimasu! This means “Happy New Year!” in
Japanese. It literally means “Congratulations that a new year has opened up!”
Since we are humans, we made so many mistakes last year. However, finally
the new year has come for us to start a new life! The door of the year 2014 is
closed and now the door of 2015 is open! Do you remember one of the most
important teachings in Buddhism? No Attachment! Now, let’s start a brand-
new New Year!
If many good things happened to you during the past year, let’s pray for more good things to
happen in this year again. If you lost your beloved ones, let’s pray for them to be able to live
happy and peaceful second lives in the Pure Land.
New Year is a good time to make resolutions. Let’s make resolutions to live a good Buddhist
life during this year by saying the following prayer:
May Buddha help me to move forward,
May You help me to understand Your teachings and respect them,
May You help me to apply Your teachings to my daily life,
May You help me to practice Buddhist customs,
May You help me to share my happiness with others, and
Please always be with me.
Now I would like to thank volunteers who worked so hard last year. Because of your help,
the activities of the last year such as O-Bon, Bon Dance, Bazaar, Mochi Making and so on were
very successful. Let me ask you for your continuous support to our temple.
I also would like to thank those who made donations for repairing our columbarium and the
bathrooms of the temple. They are painted very beautifully now. At the end of the last year, we
took down the temple bell because the support got rusted. We would
like to put it back as soon as possible.
Also, I am very glad that a Kokua relationship was established with
Kiwanis Club last year. As you may already noticed, they helped the
parking for our O-Bon services and Bon Dance last Summer. I am sure
their young energy and power will help us a lot again this year.
I am sure hard times and glad times will be ahead, but if we trust in
the power of Buddha and work together, our future will be very successful. Now is the time to
understand the role that each one of us plays for the betterment of our community.
At the end of my message, I would like to announce that we are hosting a seminar on March
14 and 15 in commemoration of 120 years of Hawaii Jodo Shu. I hope many people come to this
seminar and learn the teachings of Jodo Buddhism.
May Buddha keep on shining upon us and may you have a very Happy New Year!
In Gassho,
Rev. Yubun Narashiba
Jodo Mission of Hawaii
Head Minister
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GYOKI-E CHUTOBA FORM 2015(御忌会中塔婆申し込み用紙) Deadline: January 7, 2015
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)
FOR OFFICE USE ONLY Order accepted by: _______________ Date accepted: _______/______/ 2015 (In person / Mail / By phone)
Received by: _______________ Date paid: _______/______/ 2015 (Cash / Check # __________ ) Write_______
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Gyoki-e (Honen Shonin’s Memorial Service)
Gyoki-e means the me-
morial service for Honen Shonin.
Honen Shonin, who is a founder
of Jodo Shu, passed away on Jan-
uary 25th, 1212. He was 80 years
old.
After Honen Shonin
passed away, his disciples and
believers started to have a memo-
rial service for him on the 25th of
every month. The biggest cere-
mony was held on 25th of Janu-
ary every year. This service was
held not only locally in Kyoto but
it spread all over Japan. In those
days, the word “Gyoki” meant
the anniversary of the deaths of
the Emperors or their wives. The
word “Gyoki” was such a respect-
able word for the Emperor's fam-
ily.
Three hundred years later,
after Honen Shonin passed away,
the Emperor Gokashiwabara
mandated Jodo Shu to call the
anniversary of Honen Shonin’s
death “Gyoki”. Since then, peo-
ple called his annual memorial
service “Gyoki”. This occasion
implied that Honen Shonin was
clearly accepted and revered by
the Emperor and the people.
Our Gyoki-e service will be
held on January 18th at 10 a.m.
Please join us.
Chutoba is available for this
Gyoki-e service. At this service
you may also honor your
deceased ancestors with a Chuto-
ba prayer. See above Chutoba
order form.
Founder of Jodo Shu :
Honen Shonin (1133-1212)
Gyoki-e Service
January 18 at 10 a.m.
____ I plan to attend service
____ I do not plan to attend
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MAHALO
Thank you everyone who came for general
clean-up of the Temple, including the Col-
umbarium or Nokotsudo on December 12,
2014. Your hard work and dedication to the
Temple are deeply appreciated.
Thank you to the Sunday School and Inter-
mediate YBA for the delicious pizza lunch-
eon and visit by Santa. What an enjoyable
treat after general cleaning!
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING
As members of Jodo Mission of Hawaii, you are cordially welcome to attend the 2014
General Membership Meeting on Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 10:30 a.m., following the
Sunday Service in the temple. Please join us. Following the religious and business portion,
please join us for a New Year’s party (see below).
Shinnenka i 新年会 New Year’s Party
Please join us for our New Year’s Party following the Annual General Mem-
bership meeting. All members and friends are invited. Come and meet your
Board of Directors.
Date: Sunday, January 25
Time: 11:30 am (after General Membership Meeting)
Place: Jodo Mission Social Hall
Also invited to our New Year’s Party are former dormitory residents of Jodo Mis-
sion of Hawaii. If you know of anyone who resided in the dormitory here at Jodo
Mission, please either call us 949-3995 or have that person contact the temple. If
they are unable to attend, we still would like to hear their story of their experience
at Jodo Mission. Thank you.
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.
Katsutoshi Yano 92
Allen Iwao Kamibayashiyama 73
Shigeko Aoki 89
Dorothy Nishimura Murashige 85
Hisako Fujimoto 99
Jodo Mission Office Hours:
Monday to Saturday: 8am—5pm
Sunday & Holidays: 8am—3pm
Phone: 949-3995
Website: www.jodo.us
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Rev. Yubun Narashiba Head Minister
Rev. Kanjun Nakano Resident Minister
Rev. Dwight Nakamura Bishop Emeritus
Bishop Gensho Hara Lahaina, Maui
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 dur-ing the morning service. The prayers will contin-ue 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 welcome you to attend the morning service at 8:30am.
How to apply
Stop by the office, and fill out the application form. Each name costs $200. After the applica-tion is accepted, the name will be listed on the record.
FAQ: How should we discard Kagami Mochi?
ANS: Because of the unique climate of Hawaii,
Kagami Mochi gets moldy much faster than
Japan. Therefore, it is recommended to take
them down after the three holy days of the
New Year (i.e. on January 4th), though it is
the common practice in Japan to keep them
until January 11th.
After you take them down, it is the best if
you eat them. However, in Hawaii, it is quite
possible that the Kagami Mochi is already
moldy. In that case, sprinkle a dash of salt on
the Kagami Mochi to purify them just like
Sumo wrestlers purify the Sumo ring with
salt and put them in a paper bag or wrap
them with paper such as news paper, and
then throw them away.
1 Sekitaro Hirohama
The Hirohama & Kawasugi Family Kenji Fujikami
The Hashimoto Family The Ohara Family Haruko Ikuta
Tsugio Takamatsu Family Tomomitsu Kawamura The Kawamura Family
Fukuda Tokusaburo’s Father Hon-yo Jo-dai Shin-ji The Fukuda Family
The Nakamura Family Chukichi Asamura Toyo Asamura
The Masuda & Asamura Family The Yamasaki & Hara Family The Yoshizaki Family
The Matsushita Family The Aoki Family The Sakuda Family
The Okamura Family Stanley Satoru Morimoto
2 Richard Hichiro Kawamoto 3 Hideo Toyoshiba
Yoshitaka Wada 4 Tamaru Muraoka
5 Kiyo Fujikami The Fujikami Family
Shizuyo Morisako Kasuke Yamane Jiro Nakamura
Randall Loreg The Loreg Family
6 Kikuyo Yamasaki Eiichi Fujita Shigeharu Ohata
7 Jiro Oyabu The Oyabu & Kondo Family
Kazuko Nomiyama Tetsuko Miyamoto Kama Takara
Ruth Shigeko Tarumoto 8 Matsujiro Otani (1) The Otani Family
The Yanagihara Family Toshio Isoibe The Isobe Family
Matsujiro Otani (2) Taketo Sumimoto (1) Juichi Uesugi
Fusataro Higuchi Taketo Sumimoto (2) Kenji Miyakawa
Nobu Kishimoto 9 Taka Tomonari
The Tomonari Family Asa Hayashi Hisako Takamura
10 Hiroko Yoza The Yoza Family
Kami Higa The Higa Family
Bishop Ninryo Nago
The Nago & Kunimoto Family 11 Tokoe Imaguchi
The Imaguchi Family Hatsuko Hayashi The Hayashi Family
Masakichi Teruya Reginald Hisao Hisamura Uichiro Ishii
Kohei Umeda Matsuyo Yamamoto Tadashi Yanagihara
12 Heiji Fukuda (1) Heiji Fukuda (2)
The Fukuda Family Nagao Yamada Shokichi Harada
Tadashi Yanagihara 13 Bishop Jiko Kuya
Shima Morita Shizue Fujita Shima Morita
14 Akitaka Chikamoto The Ohta Family
Genzo Yanagihara The Yanagihara Family Tsuchiyo Kimoto
Miyoko Kaya James Akira Tamura
15 Tane Nagata (1) The Nagata Family Sukeichi Kameoka
The Kameoka Family Tane Nagata (2) Mildred Misako Tanimura
Shizue Kimura 16 Take Shinagawa
Tomojiro Fujita The Fujita Family Kenji Iwamoto
Chiyoka Mizuno Seiichi Shimamoto
17 Hanayo Taniguchi Kame Okamoto Moto Kawasugi Nobuo Hayashi
18 Kiyomatsu Daitoku (1) The Daitoku Family
The Kawauchi Family Katsutoshi Takada The Takada Family
Kiyomatsu Daitoku (2) Itaro Kurihara The Kurihara Family
Masao Ishii Shoichi Ishida
19 Tai Kawano The Kawano Family Chiyo Tomai
The Tomai Family Miyo Ueno The Ueno Family
20 Shinazo Nishiguchi
The Nishiguchi Family
Noboru Ajimura The Ajimura Family Kiku Kimura
Yuriko Nishimoto 21 Sueko Higashimura
Kiku Kimura The Kimura & Muroshige Family
Masao Teruya Takeo Yamane Shimo Hatanaka
Hiroshi Furuya Tsuneko Shintaku Koichi Ronald Namihira
Aileen Mitsuyo Kishida 22 Masae Tanimura
Konoshin Kimura Fukukichi Tatei
23 Shokichi Fukumoto The Fukumoto Family Takeo Yoshihara
The Yoshihara Family The Tanaka Family Jiro Kiyama
Ralph Toshiaki Hashimoto Terry Kazuo Yorimoto
24 Heikichi Isobe The Isobe Family Machi Yokoyama
The Yokoyama & Morita Family Toranosuke Kinoshita Tane Kinoshita
The Kinoshita Family Tsune Aoki George Masao Tanaka
Helen Katsuko Ito Tetsuo Shinohara
25 Taka Fukuda The Fukuda Family Saiichi Hyodo
Joseph Yoshihiko Fujihana Sadako Oki Teruko Mamiya
The Sato Omura Family Takeshi Tanaka 26 Take Arita
The Arita Family Haruo Nakamura The Nakamura Family
Kimio Yagi The Yagi Family Sueyoshi Yanagihara
Yoshi Yamamoto Chester Takeo Kaita
27 Seiichi Fujimoto The Fujimoto Family Takeshi Sato
Charles Shoichi Kimura Hiroko Nakano Yoshiro Ohta
28 Yoshie Sato The Sato & Suzuki Family
Sae Higashimura The Higashimura Family
Tome Yamanaka
The Yamanaka Family Chizuko Saeki Sadamu Iwamoto
Yooko Fujimoto 29 Tomo Isobe
Hana Kinoshita The Kinoshita Family Jisaburo Kanemoto
The Kanemoto & Miyamoto Family Kansuke Shintani
Fusao Taniguchi Ralph Hitoshi Tanaka Toshito Fukuda
30 Kumaichi Tomonari The Tomonari Family
Tsunejiro Kawasaki The Kawasaki & Nakagawa Family
Ine Yoshizaki The Yoshizaki Family Tomota Kakehashi
Masao Kume Akio Matsuda Kiyoshi Kamimura
Barbara Okimoto 31 You Kawamura
The Kawamura Family Shizuko Aoyama Kaname Yamanaka
Takeo Tanaka Shigeno Ohara
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