Bon Dance

August 19, Friday: 6:30pm-9:30pm

August 20, Saturday: 6:30pm-9:30pm
(August 19, Friday: 5:45pm
Jizo Bon prayer will be held
in front of Jizo statue)

Getting ready for the Bon Dance

Please come, bring your kimonos, happi

coats and dance around the yagura and
enjoy the many food items: bentos, BBQ sticks,
saimin, sushi, yaki soba, gyoza, spam musubi, Andagi
(Okinawan donuts), hot dog, chili,
chili and rice, turkey jook, juice,
soda, shave ice, water, etc.
Food Booths will open at 4:30pm
Dancers enjoying themselves
around the yagura

Kiddie games will be available

Address Service Requested

1429 Makiki St.

Honolulu HI 96814

Jodo Mission of Hawaii

(#1237-0816)

Bulletin - AUGUST 2016

Jodo Mission of Hawaii

Above photo, people are getting ready for Bon Dance.

Bon Dance is the fellowship part of ancestor

worshipDancing is for everyone! Yummy
foods of all kinds! Games for children! Happi
coats and bon dance towels for sale

Prayer is given before Bon Dance begins

Taiko Drums to begin

our Bon Dance!
People enjoy watching
the dancers happily go
around the yagura as
well as dancers dancing around the yagura.
Also delicious foods
for purchase!

Helping with Bon Dance Preparation: We do need your help with Bon Dance

preparation. Please contact the temple office to let them know you are able to help. Help
is needed on Thursday, Aug 18 and/or Friday, Aug 19 and/or Saturday, Aug 20 from 9:00
a.m. If you are only available a few hours, whether it is during the day or during the Bon
Dance hours, your help will be much appreciated! Please contact the office to let them know
when you are available. Thank you.
Bon Dance Practice: Bon dance practice will be held Tuesday, August 16 and Wednesday, August 17, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Everyone is welcome to practice or learn from
instructors in the inner circle.
Jodo Mission Happi Coats: Jodo Mission
will be selling its own happi coats. If you are
interested you may contact Jodo Mission or
come to the Bon Dance.
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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 generations seem to be going
away from Buddhism by saying that Buddhism is hard to understand. 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.
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

Note: Above two service procedures are purely for informational purpose. We shall honor your family customs and
decisions to arrange a funeral service.
**Editors 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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Thank You to All Who Participated with O-Toba Set Up

Thank you to all who came to help with the O-Toba set up and general cleaning of
the temple and Nokotsudo or Columbarium on Sunday,
July 3rd. As you can see from the photos on this page, there
were so many O-Tobas to set up. It takes a lot of manpower to
put the O-Tobas up. [These photos were taken in 2015 when it
was a hot, sunny day but on July 3rd, it was a rainy day.] Also
thank you to the women who helped clean our temple and
Nokotsudo or Columbarium and for those who prepared the
delicious lunch!
With the help of many of you (members, relatives and
friends of members), we were able to have the O-Tobas set up
and ready for O-Bon services. See photo to the right showing
all the O-Tobas set up! This is hard work! It is with all your
kokua that it is possible to
welcome the departed spirits
to Jodo Mission. Hope everyone enjoyed yourselves and
that while you worked hard, you enjoyed the fellowship,
which is very important. ARIGATO!
All the O-Tobas were beautifully written by Rev.
Narashiba. Thank you very much!

O-Bon Services:

THANK YOU Bishop Hara and Rev. Narashiba for performing the seven O-Bon services
and Rev. Koji Ezaki from Haleiwa Jodo Mission and Rev.
Goshin Nakamura of Gudon-in Temple in Miyagi-ken in
Japan, who came to assist. Special thank you to Rev.
Narashiba who read all the names of O-Toba and Chutoba
offerings. Thank you Rev. Narashiba and Rev. Nakano for
the many private O-Toba services conducted. Thank you
Mae Yorimoto for handling the chochin orders, setup and
preparing the Chutoba memorial tablets. Thank you to the Fujinkai ladies who prepared
meals for the ministers and workers during the three days of O-Bon services. Thank you to
the Sr. YBA for providing beautiful chrysanthemum potted plants for sale.
Thank you to Akiko Nishiyama and Gail Masaki for taking care of the registration desk and Clifford Miyamoto for taking
care of the Choba or donation desk.. Thank you to
Calvin Hara and the Kiwanis Club for directing
traffic. Thank you to Tsutomu Nakai Sensei for
sending our ancestors spirits back to the Pure Land with Taiko
drum music until next year!
Thank you to all those who purchased an O-Toba and
came to visit their O-Toba and those who purchased a Chutoba
for an O-Bon Service. Thank you for attending our O-Bon Services. Most important
thank you for remembering your beloved ancestors!
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Haleiwa Jodo Mission O-Bon Service

On July 8 and 9, 2016, Haleiwa Jodo Mission had its O-Bon Services and Toro Nagashi on July 9, 2016. As the only other Jodo Shu temple on Oahu, some members of Betsuin and ministers Rev. Narashiba and
Rev. Nakamura went to help. It is so beautiful to see all the lanterns
floating. This year, because of the tide, the toro launching was at 10 p.m.
and many either did not attend or did not pick up their lanterns. With the
help of volunteers, all the lanterns went on their way.

More Jodo Mission of Hawaii O-Bon Photos

After O-Bon Service, families, gather and

visit their O-Tobas.

Walk through each row of O-Tobas with the ministers. There were a lot of Hatsubon people who joined
the ministers and experienced walking through each
row of O-Tobas.

After walking through

each row of O-Tobas,
you are able to offer
incense

Long lines of people in the

background waiting for their
turn to offer incense. While
others waited for their sponsors name to be called, some
were happy to have their
photos taken.
Sr. YBA Jo Ann Matsuo and
Peggy Miyamoto were helped
by Sophie Narashiba.

Fujinkai ladies: One group of

ladies who helped on the last
day of service.

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2016 BON DANCE SCHEDULE

OF JODO SHU TEMPLES

Island

Temple

Oahu

Betsuin
Haleiwa

Big Island
[Hawaii]

Maui

Kauai

Kurtistown
Hilo
Hakalau
Hamakua
Kohala
Hawi
Kahului
Wailuku
Lahaina
Kapaa
Koloa

Phone No.

Times

949-3995

Dates
Aug 19 to 20

637-4382

July 8 to 9

7/8:
7/9:

August 6

8:00 pm

July 16
August 20

8:00 pm

August 13
July 9

7:00 pm

August 6

6:00 pm

August 19-20

7:30 pm

June 17

8:00 pm

(808) 661-4304

July 2

8:00 pm

(808) 822-4319

June 17 to 18

7:30 pm

(808) 742-6735

July 29 to 30

7:30 pm

Call Rev. Miyazaki

(808) 936-7828
(808) 935-6996
(808) 936-7828
Call Rev. Wansa
(808) 775-0965
Call Rev. John Hara
(808) 244-0066

Jodo Mission Office Hours:

Monday to Saturday
8am5pm
Sunday & Holidays
8am3pm

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

6:30 pm 9:30 pm
8 pm 10 pm
8 pm 11 pm

7 or 8 pm (not set)
7:00 pm

O-Bon: Our bulletin board collapsed

with a gust of wind.
Rev. Ezaki, Jo Ann
Matsuo and Rev.
Nakamura put it
back together. This
bulletin board is
probably 30 years
old. Next year
hopefully we will
build a newer one! Thank you very much!

Bishop Gensho Hara

Rev. Yubun Narashiba

Rev. Kanjun Nakano

Lahaina, Maui

Head Minister

Resident Minister

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EITAIKYO (Perpetual Memorial Service) for August

1 Cordelia Reiko Ushiroda
2 Sato Hirouji
The Miyamasu Family
The Hirouji Family
The Nakamura Family
Tadashi Nakamura
Janet Okawa
3 Satsu Hashimoto
The Hashimoto Family
4 Masaichi Harada
Tsuru Nomura
The Nomura Family
Sumako Iguchi
Kenkichi Kimoto
Keisuke Masuda
5 Tori Matsubara
The Matsubara Family
Tahei Higashimura
The Higashimura Family
Mantaro Nitta
Toichiro Tomita
Yutaka Kubota
6 Toshiko Nishimura
Yoshio Fujii
7 Kametaro Yano (2)
The Yano Family
The Yano, Konaka &
Hayashi Family
Chokichi Tanaka
The Tanaka Family
Aiko Fukuhara
The Inouye Family
Kikuno Yamane
Kaneichi Kato
8 Takao Tsuda
Kitae Yamanaka
The Yamanaka Family
Zentoku Takara
Kame Taira
Russel Hideo Uehara
9 Takeo Sato
The Sato & Suzuki Family
Hiro Yonemoto
Tora Higashi
The Hashimoto Baby
Evelyn Murakami
Yonemoto Family
The Higashi Family
10 Seitaro Yamamoto
The Suzuki & Yamamoto
Family
Takaji Shigeoka
Kinichi Imai
Saburo Nishimura
Ito Fujita
The Fujita Family
Hideo Yamagata
11 Tomegusu Kotake
Kuranoshin Matsumoto
Thomas Yoshiaki Shimizu

12 Hatsuichi Karimoto
13 Doris Kiyoko Miura
Toshio Kouchi
14 Ashizuchi Fujikami
The Fujikami Family
Shizuo Yokomichi
The Yokomichi & Kondo
Family
Iichi Yanagihara
Yoshijiro Iwamoto
Shizuno Muraoka

Saka Kuniyuki
Morishige Inage
Misao Kuniyuki
Yoshi Nishimura
Toshiyuki Ogawa
Toraichi Kurakake

Misawa & Watanabe

Family
Misawa Family
Akira Misawa
Riyo Yano
Edith Kiyoko Kaneshiro

22 Yuri Hironaka
The Hironaka & Ishimoto
Family
Masuichi Tabata
Miyoko Hokushin
Takenouchi

23 Yoshisuke Masuda
15 Maki Hara
Raymond Tetsuji
The Hara Family
Nishiyama
Bishop Shoshin Inouye
The Nose Family
24 Kazuo Kano
Sata Nitta
The Kano & Wataba 6
Torano Toyoshiba
Noboru Hamamura
Family
Hatsue Yamada Watanabe
Teisuke Hamamoto
Robert Tokusei Kaneshiro
The Hamamoto Family
Eizo Fukuda
16 Masao Mizuno
Tatsuki Heirakuji
The Mizuno & Ohta Family
Sueko Onaga (2)
Ume Miyamasu
The Miyamasu Family
25 Tema Iuchi
The Masaki Family
The Iuchi Family
Yoneo Masuda
Kiku Masuda
The Masuda Family
The Masuda & Asamura
Family
17 Toshikata Shinagawa
Etsuko Ohta
David Kenji Moritsugu
The Ohta Family
Kiyoji Yamamoto
Koji Yasumoto
Kazuyo Furukawa
Gladys Otsui Ikeda
18 Mitsuru Morisako
26 Tadasuke Nishida
The Morisako & Ishii FamiMasaji Ishida
ly
Umeno Masuda
Shinsuke Mito
Torao Maehara
The Mito Family
Yachiyo Tamura
Fuji Yasumoto
Hanayo Imai
27 Harumi Tasaka
Miyuki Ono
Shigeo Kobashigawa
Toraichi Kurakake
The Kobashigawa Family
Rev. Ryokai Yamanaka
Kenji Kawano
Ruysuke Machida
Haruo Okuhara
28 Hitoshi Mizuno
The Mizuno & Ohta Family
19 Eiko Maeda
Seikuro Hisamura
The Maeda Family
Shichiemon Ebisuzaki (2)
Kiyoshi Hisamura
Hana Noyama
Hisano Oyabu
The Oyabu & Kondo
29 Tadashi Higashi
Family
The Higashi Family
Wakichi Suzui Family
Kenji Hamada
Takeshi Umetsu
The Hamada Family
Sakae Matsumoto
Atsushi Fujita
The Fujita Family
20 Shizue Iwamoto
Masahiko Miyagi
Henry Hashimoto
Kame Namihira
30 Thomas Takeshi Tanaka
Chie Nakagawa
Elsie Kikuye Tatei
Katsumi Nishimoto
21 Yoshisuke Sato
Sojoro Takamura
The Sato & Suzuki
Rikiichi Yagi
Yutaka Tejima
The Tejima Family
31 Toshiyasu Misawa (2)

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.
Robert Hidenori Iwai
Michiye Yoshimura
Tamotsu Teruya

80
90
89

10:00 Sunday Service

Bon Dance Clean-up

NO SUNDAY SEVICE

8:00 Yagura Kuzushi

10.00 Board Meeting

NO SUNDAY SERVICE

8:00 Yagura Set up

8:30 Fujinkai Meeting

10:00 Sunday Service

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22

15

Mon

30

23

16

31

24

25

18

11

Thu

Ikoi Hall

August 2 @ 8:30 am

(Womens association)

Fujinkai Meeting

7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

17

10

Wed

Bon Dance Practice

Tue

August 2016

Coming Events:
Keiro Kai & Grandparents Day
Sept 11
Sept 16-18 Laypersons and Hawaii Rengo Fujinkai Convention
in Lahaina, Maui
Sept 25 @ 10am Higan Service
Bazaar Set up after 10 am service
Oct 9
Jodo Mission Bazaar
Oct 16

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21

14

Sun

9:30am Morning Service

Everyday
Sat

To be announced

YBA Meeting

August 13
8 to 11 a.m.

No Sunday School in
August

Sunday School

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27

B o n D a n c e : 6:30 pm 9:30 p m

20

8:00 am Sew8ing
Circle

13

5:45pm Jizo Bon Prayer

Sewing Circle

26

19

12

Fri

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

Jodo Mission of Hawaii