Jodo Mission of Hawaii
Bulletin - MAY 2015
(#1222-0515)
Jodo Mission of Hawaii 1429 Makiki St. Honolulu HI 96814 Address Service Requested
2015 BON DANCE SCHEDULE OF JODO SHU TEMPLES
Island Temple Phone No. Dates Times
Oahu Betsuin 949-3995 Aug 14 to 15 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Haleiwa 637-4382 June 19 to 20 6/19: 8 pm – 10 pm
6/20: 8 pm – 11 pm
Big Island [Hawaii] Kurtistown
Call Rev. Miyazaki (808) 936-7828
(808) 935-6996
(808) 936-7828
August 1 8:00 pm
Hilo July 11 8:00 pm
Hakalau August 15 8:00 pm
Hamakua
Call Rev. Wansa
(808) 775-0965
August 8 6:30 pm
Kohala July 11 6:30 pm
Hawi August 1 6:30 pm
Maui Kahului Call Rev. John Hara
(808) 244-0066
August 15 7:00 pm
Wailuku June 19 7:00 pm
Lahaina (808) 661-4304 July 3 7:00 pm
Kapaa (808) 822-4319 June 12 to 13 7:30 pm Kauai
Koloa (808) 742-6735 July 24 to 25 7:30 pm
Volunteer Office Worker Needed
We are in need of a volunteer office worker from June 3,
2015 to July 10, 2015 from 9 am to 2 pm on either Wednesdays
or Fridays. Duties include: answering the telephone, receiving
reservations for memorial services, taking messages, collecting
payments, answering the Nokotsudo or Columbarium buzzer to let
someone in to visit the Nokotsudo. It is quite interesting. You get
to meet all kinds of people and at the same time, you will learn a
lot about Jodo Mission and Jodo Shu.
In preparation for the O-Bon season, the O-Tobas
need to be written and the minister needs to concentrate
on the O-Toba he is working on so having someone an-
swer the telephone while the minister is writing an O-
Toba or doing a memorial service or getting ready
for a funeral would be greatly appreciated. If you
are interested, please contact Rev. Narashiba
at 949-3995.
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Special Needs: For those who
do not want to climb many stairs,
see below:
Elevator: Please note that we
do have an elevator which is located
on the seaside of the Temple. Please
ring the bell at the back door of the
Temple for assistance.
Service in Ikoi Hall: If you
would like to have your service on the
first floor, you may do so by request-
ing the service be held in Ikoi Hall in-
stead of walking up the stairs.
Golden Chain
I am a link in Amida Buddha’s golden chain
of love that stretches around the world. I will
try to keep my link bright and strong.
I will try to be kind and gentle to every living
thing and protect all who are weaker than
myself. I will try to think pure and beautiful
thoughts, to say pure and beautiful words,
and to do pure and beautiful deeds, knowing
that what I do now depends my happiness
and misery.
May every link in Amida Buddha’s golden
chain of love be bright and strong and may
we all attain perfect peace.
Jodo Shu Mourns the Passing of
Former Bishop Dwight Ryokan Nakamura With a great sadness, the Jodo Shu community in Hawaii
mourns the loss of a devoted, compassionate minister and
former Bishop of Hawaii Council of Jodo Missions Dwight
Ryokan Nakamura. Bishop Nakamura passed away quietly
on March 23, 2015 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina at the
age of 88. He was born in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.
He is survived by two daughters: Chandra Kanemaru and
Dana Nakamura.
Many of you remember him as always smiling, and saying
good morning and thank you for coming or thank you for your
participation. He loved food and he loved his sweets.
Bishop Nakamura came to Hawaii in 1954 and in 1962 assisted Kyoku with the
publication of an English service book, “Light of Asia” and in 1978 was the editorial
chairman regarding the published “Otsutome,” a service book containing Japanese and
English translations. He became Bishop of the Hawaii Council of Jodo Missions (also known as Kyoku) in 1983 to 1991 and again in 2004 to 2007. Prior to becoming
Bishop, he was also resident minister at Kurtistown and Hilo Meishoin.
Bishop Nakamura’s presence can be seen on the temple grounds. In 1953 he installed the statue of Ojizosama which faces the H-1 free-
way. Ojizosama is the protector of children and travelers. He believed
after the Ojizosama was installed there were fewer accidents.
Upon Bishop Nakamura’s return from Japan in 2004, a statue of
Guze Shoson Bodhisattavas was sculpted by the great Buddhist sculp-tor, Wakei Nagaoka. This highly inspired artist created Buddha’s
images to represent the past, the present and the future
by engraving all three on one stone. You can see this
statue as you enter the Betsuin temple grounds.
Also, upon his retirement in 2007, he donated
three statues by Wakei Nagaoka of Okazaki and his
brother Kizan Nagaoka of Hokkaido.
The Bishop’s funeral will be held on Sunday,
May 31, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. at Jodo Mission of Hawaii as “Kyokuso” (Kyoku-
sponsored funeral). This is the highest honor given to a minister in Hawaii.
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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 genera-
tions seem to be going away from Buddhism by saying that Buddhism is hard to under-
stand. 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.
**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.
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A n n o u n c e m e n t s
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May 10th Is Mother’s Day
(Haha No Hi)
Mother’s Day is celebrated as an expression
of love and appreciation to mothers. Please
come to our Mother’s Day Service on May
10 at 10:00 a.m.
Flowers Needed for
Lei Making
on Friday, May 22, 2015
Please bring Plume-
ria or other small
flowers for leis to Jodo Mission on
Thursday, May 21,
2015. Any amount of flowers will
be greatly appreciated. Little bit
here and little bit there adds up.
Everyone is invited to join us on
May 22, 2015 beginning at 8 am for our Memorial Day lei making
project. Please come and help us
sew leis for our veterans at Punch-
bowl Cemetery. Lunch will be pro-
vided. Thank you!
Children’s Day (May 5)
In Japan, since 1948, May 5 has
been a national holiday known
as “Children’s Day” or
“Kodomo no hi”. This national
holiday in Japan was decreed to
celebrate the happiness, health
and growth of all children.
Most notable are carp
shaped streamers. The
carp was chosen because
it symbolizes strength
and success and accord-
ing to Chinese legend, a
carp swam upstream to
become a dragon. Children’s Day
around the world.
What Hanamatsuri Means to Me
By Sophie Narashiba
Sophie Narashiba did a beautiful drawing of
“What Hanamatsuri Means to Me”. The draw-
ing is of the celebration of Buddha’s birth and
how his mother Queen Maya dreamt of an ele-
phant bringing Buddha into this world.
O b i t u a r i e s
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.
Harriet Fumiko Asaumi 100
Catherine Kimi Sato 51
Minoru Oshiro 82
Bishop Dwight Ryokan Nakamura 88
Carl Isao Yoshida 51
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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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 ex-ists. 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.
Bishop Gensho Hara Lahaina, Maui
Hawaii Buddhist Council’s
Memorial Day Service
Everyone is cordially invited to the
Memorial Day Service, sponsored by the
Hawaii Buddhist Council:
When: Monday, May 18
at 9:00 a.m.
Where: Punchbowl Cemetery
Hawaii Buddhist Council is made up of seven (7)
Buddhist denominations: Higashi Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii, Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii, Jodo
Mission of Hawaii, Koyasan Shingon Mission of Ha-
waii, Nichiren Mission of Hawaii, Soto Mission of Ha-
waii and Tendai Mission of Hawaii.
Junen: O-junen, or simply junen, literally means
“ten recollections” or “ten moments of mindful-
ness.’ In Jodo Shu, junen specifically means “ten
recitations of Amida Buddha’s Name or “Namu
Amida Butsu’ (“Homage to Amida Buddha” or “I
take refuge in Amida
Buddha”) ten times.
Junen is a standard way
of reciting the Nenbutsu
in daily practice and in
services.
1 Tome Iwamoto
Tome Toishigawa
2 Bishop Buntetsu Miyamoto Etsuo Nakagawa
3 Mitsuyo Nakahara The Fukunaga Family Mitsuko Sakai
Carol Masako Yano
4 Eikichi Hirouji The Miyamasu Family Tamotsu Takaoka
Toshio Yoshioka James Mitsuyoshi Uesugi
5 Sadaichi Mito
The Mito Family Michie Makino The Makino & Okamura Family
Morita Kokubun
6 Tokusaburo Fukuda (2) The Fukuda Family (2)
Tora Kanayama (2) The Kanayama Family Hitoshi Nitta
Kamato Uyehara Tamayo Matsumori Laurie T. Cho
Kazuo Karimoto Kuma Tatei Masaru Morimoto
7 Minetaro Katagiri The Katagiri & Imamiya Family Tsuyako Kishii
Kiyoshi Hirano Satoru Miura
8 Toshiko Kusunoki Tami Kawasaki The Kusunoki Family
Tsuru Kitamura The Kawasaki & Nakagawa Family Yasuo Kagihara
The Kitamura Family Seki Tamura
10 Sada Kurihara The Kurihara Family The Ajimura Family
The Ito Family (Stillborn) Shinichi Takenouchi
11 Masataka Fukuda
The Fukuda Family Shuzo Mitsutani The Mitsutani Family
Ayataro Nanbu The Nanbu Family Kimiko Fujii
Kikuyo Hayashi Kinuyo Matsui Matsuichi Onaga
12 Konosuke Tsuda
The Tsuda Family Kimie Takaoka Mieko Takara
Yasu Ogi Kenji Otani Kikuye Okamura
13 Konzo Nakai
The Nakai Family Hikoichi Hirai The Hirai Family
Moushi Uehara Teruo Sawamura Fumiko Yogi
Kenichi Hayashi Teruo Sawamura The Sawamura Family
Betty Oshita Katsutoshi Kano
14 Kiku Miyashige
The Goto Family The Miyashige Family Fui Yamato
The Yamato Family Toshio Karamatsu Kiku Matsumoto
Kura Harada Shinichi Yanagihara Mitsuko Takemoto
16 Kamekichi Hayashi The Hayashi Family Kozo Okamoto Peggy Miyako Ogi
17 Hiromu Hayashi Wallace Kazuyo Sakai Helen Miyoko Fujikami Tamashiro
Hanako Thelma Ogawa
18 Hatsuyo Yamamoto The Yamamoto Family
Tadami Uemoto Chizuko Koto Haru Shimizu
The Kawabe Family The Mitsujiro Kurashige Family Kiyoshi Narahara
19 Kamechiyo Uyehara Fumio Fujiwara Kayoko Miyamoto
Toshiko Yamanaka
20 Sukeo Matsuno The Matsuno Family
Hatsue Tsuda The Tsuda Family Kamei Akamine
Haruyo Iwamoto Koan Takara Benzo Takahashi
21 Fuji Yamamoto The Yamamoto Family Shigeko Fujikami
The Fujikami Family
22 Tsunekichi Tamanaha The Tamanaha Family Masuo Tomita
Haruo Nakagawa Howard Seishi Kobayashi
23 Hichizo Nishimura (2)
The Nishimura & Aoki Family Harukichi Hirohama The Hirohama Family
Ishi Onaga The Onaga & Nakamura Family Tomoko Hayashi
Kenzo Hashimoto
24 Zensuke Yokomichi The Yokomichi & Kondo Family Kaizo Goto (2)
The Goto & Miyashige Family Kichizo Yamamoto The Yamamoto Family
Takeji Ogata Kiseno Nakano Satsuki Nakano
Kamazo Teruya Natsu Muramoto
25 Keiichi Mineishi
The Mineishi Family Kazuo Shidaki The Shidaki Family
Yoshio Nishimura Shinsuke Uchiumi Minoru Yamane
Yonosuke Ikuta The Takasawa Family Jiroichi Otani
26 Senkichi Fukuda
The Fukuda Family Fukuji Muranaka Rikio Kunihisa
Mitsuki Kimoto Toshiko Higa
27 Kichi Hisamura
Torakichi Miyao Takashi Saiki Gladys Tomi Uemoto
28 Iro Yamane Misao Yasuda Shuso Gushikuma
Shurei Gushikuma Kamaru Gushikuma Kama Gushikuma
29 Mayo Yamamoto The Yamamoto & Suzukawa Family Yazaburo Shoji
The Shoji Family Joji Sakaguchi Tomiko Yamanaka
Haruo Kito The Kito Family Hatsuko Toishigawa
Sumie Ito
30 Tamezo Yanagihara The Yanagihara Family
Heikichi Ichida The Ichida Family Setsu Yamamoto
Mackay Umeichi Yanagisawa Tsunejiro Iwamoto Yoshiko Moritsugu
31 Hideo Kuniyuki
Ichiro Obara Tahei Harada
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