O-Toba Set Up & Temple General Cleaning

Sunday, July 5, 2015 at 8:00 a.m.

Your Help Is Needed
Below is the beginning of the O-Toba set up. Rev. Narashiba is putting the O-Toba
foundation 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. So even if you see certain
O-Tobas up, it does not mean we do not need your help. Thank you.

O-Bon Service Schedule

Friday, July 17
10:00 am (Hatsubon only)

2:00 pm & 7:00 pm

Saturday, July 18
10:00 am (Hatsubon only)

2:00 pm & 7:00 pm

Sunday, July 19
10:00 am

It takes a lot of people to set up the O-Tobas, so

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
(#1224-0715)

Bulletin - JULY 2015

Jodo Mission of Hawaii

O-Bon Service Schedule

O-Bon Services will be held as follows:
Friday, July 17

10:00 am (Hatsubon Families Only)

2:00 pm & 7:00 pm

Saturday, July 18

10:00 am (Hatsubon Families Only)

2:00 pm & 7:00 pm

Sunday, July 19 -

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 19 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 17 and July 18. 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 from 8:00 am to 6:45 pm
for Tuesday July 7 to 10 a.m. on Sunday, July 19, 2015.

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
envelopes are available in the office. Thank you for your understanding and support.

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 17: 9:00 am to 7:30 pm
Saturday, July 18: 9:00 am until supply runs out

Offerings at your O-Toba: The space allowed for each O-Toba is approximately 6 inches width and 7 inches in depth. Space is so precious!
See photo at right. Last year 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 let
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Lei Making Project for Punchbowl Veterans

On May 22, 2015, some members
and Rev. Narashiba strung flowers
for leis for the graves of our veterans
at Punchbowl Cemetery. Members
included Doris and Teruto Soma,
Jo Ann Matsuo, Tomoko Hisamoto,
Peggy and Clifford Miyamoto,
Christine Inouye, Rev. Narashiba,
your photographer Koichiro Narita
and Aki Nishiyama who provided
lunch for everyone. Seems like everyone had a wonderful time! Thank you to every-

one who brought flowers to be used for leis. When they ran
out of flowers, they used T-leaves to make leis. There was a
call from the community for more flowers and leis for the
graves at Punchbowl and this was Jodo Mission of Hawaiis
contribution for leis to the veterans at Punchbowl of the Pacific. THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!

Are you interested in other Jodo Missions newsletters: Jodo Mission of

Hawaii receives copies of all other Jodo Mission bulletins. If you are interested in reading them, please stop by the office and ask to see other bulletins.
We receive them from Hilo Meishoin, Lahaina Jodo Mission, Haleiwa Jodo
Mission, Kapaa Jodo Mission, Kahului Jodo Mission, Koloa Jodo Mission
and sometimes from the others.
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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 14 and 15 in the mornings and early afternoon for cutting vegetables for yaki soba or soba salad, stuffing sushi rice into
inari cones and packaging them for sale, 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 put together the yaki soba or serve the turkey
jook. Whatever time you can spare, please call Sally Hayashi at the temple on
weekends at 949-3995 or leave a message and she will call you back.

In order to make all these inari sushi on the right, it takes a lot of people stuffing and packaging them as well as cooking and cooling the
rice, adding vinegar and vegetables. Your help is needed! Thank you.

These ladies look like they are

having fun putting the yaki
soba together in containers

Bon Dance
What do you think of Bon Dance - This is a time when family and friends get together
remember our ancestors, dance to the music of the Taiko drums and eat wonderful
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 2015
Anniversaries
Year of Passing
1st year
2014
3rd
2013
7th
2009
13th
2003
17th
1999
23rd
1993
25th
1991
27th
1989
33rd
1983
37th
1979
43rd
1973
47th
1969
50th
1966
100th
1916

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YBA Convention was

held here on Oahu at the
Disney themed Auluni
Hotel. Those who went had

YBA CONVENTION HELD AT AULANI

June 5, 6, 7, 2015

a wonderful time.
At their dinner at Ho Ho
Chinese Restaurant, a Distinguished Service Award was
presented to Kenneth Masatsugu of Haleiwa Jodo Mission for 30 years of service
with Haleiwa Jodo Mission.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Above is a photo of the YBA
statewide officers for 2015-2016
with President Jennie Hashiro and
Shuji Rev. John Hara of Kahului
Jodo Mission. In June 2016, the
YBA Convention will be held on
Maui.
A hospitality room was provided for members to
play hanafuda or just have good fellowship!

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2015 BON DANCE SCHEDULE

OF JODO SHU TEMPLES
Island

Temple

Oahu

Betsuin
Haleiwa

Big Island
[Hawaii]

Maui

Kauai

Phone No.

Times

949-3995

Dates
Aug 14 to 15

637-4382

June 19 to 20

6/19:
6/20:

August 1

8:00 pm

July 11
August 15

8:00 pm

August 8
July 11

6:30 pm

August 1

6:30 pm

August 15

7:00 pm

June 19

7:00 pm

(808) 661-4304

July 3

7:00 pm

(808) 822-4319

June 12 to 13

7:30 pm

(808) 742-6735

July 24 to 25

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

8:00 pm
6:30 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.
Kaoru Matsumura
Yukie Sakamoto
Norman Shiro Ueno
Lilian Sadako Nakano
Richard Mitsuru Hirota
Norma Sumiko Muramoto
Masanori Matsumoto
Yaeko Ishida

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

4 Setsuyo Sugihara
The Sugihara Family
Sumiyo Yamanaka
Kajo Teruya (3)
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

11 Toyo Nanbu
The Nanbu Family
Fusa Murakami (2)
The Murakami Family
The Yamamoto Family
Shigeyo Ipponsugi
Iwao Asaumi

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

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
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

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

NO SUNDAY SERVICE
8:00 O-Toba Kuzushi

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20

13

Mon

28

21

14

Tue

29

22

15

Sept 13:
Sept 18-20:

Keiro & Grandparents Day

Kyoku (Hawaii Council of Jodo Missions)
Convention

30

23

16

Thu

31

24

17

10

No Sewing
Circle in July

No Sunday
School in July

Sunday School

25

10:00 am Hatsubon Families

2:00 pm and 7:00 pm

YBA: No YBA Meeting in July

NO meeting in July

(Womens association)

18

11

Sat

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

Fri

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

Jodo Mission of Hawaii

Fujinkai Meeting Sewing Circle

Wed

July 2015

July 17-19: O-Bon Services at Jodo Mission of Hawaii

Aug 11-12: Bon Dance Practice at Jodo Mission 7-9 pm
Aug 14-15: Bon Dance at Jodo Mission of Hawaii

EVENTS:

26

Clean-up After Service

10:00 O-Bon Service

19

10:00 Sunday Service

12

Sun

9:30am Morning Service

Everyday