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- 1. JodoMissionofHawaii Bulletin-JANUARY2018 (#1254-0118) JodoMissionofHawaii 1429MakikiSt. HonoluluHI96814 AddressServiceRequested New Year Message from the Bishop “A Happy New Year!” “Akemashite Omedeto Gozaimasu!” Congratulations! Another new year has opened up! First of all, I would like to thank everyone for your help and support for Jodo Mission, especially I would like to thank the people who made donations for the repair of our temple building. The building became very beautiful and safe again. I also would like to thank the volunteers who worked so hard last year. Be- cause of their help, the activities such as O-Bon, Bon Dance, Mochi Making and so on were very successful. In my new year message last year, I told you that we lost 127 members and our membership went down to 617. However, in this message this year, I am very glad to tell you that our mem- bership increased to 629! It is 12 families more than the last year! It is not a big increase but still a good news. This year, let’s aim higher!. If you know anybody who can help us or join our membership, such as your son, daughter, your niece or nephew, your sister of brother, or even your friends, please let me know. Also, if you have any idea to increase our membership, please let me know, too. We are al- ways open to your creative ideas. Now, the door of 2018 is open. Let’s pray for more good things to happen during this year. If you lost your beloved ones last year, let’s pray for them to be able to live their happy and peace- ful second lives in the Pure Land. At the end of my message, I would like to again thank all of our members, supporters and friends, and ask for your continuous support for Jodo Mission. May Buddha keep on shining upon us and may you have a very Happy New Year! In Gassho, Bishop Yubun Narashiba
- 2. Page 2 New Year Day Blessing January 1, 2018 10:00 a.m. Please join us for our first service of the new year on January 1, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. As part of the first service of the year, Bishop Narashiba will be blessing all persons who attend: families, couples, individuals. This is a wonderful way to begin the new year being blessed for good health, good luck, happiness, etc. Other blessing services such as house blessing, car bless- ing, baby blessing, etc. are available by appointment. Jodo Mission of Hawaii President’s 2018 New Year Message Dear Members, Thank you for your support and for attending Jodo Mission of Hawaii’s services, Bon dance, mochi-making, and other events. In the last quarter of 2017, we have repaired and painted our temple and begun repairing and painting our apartment building. We are happy on how beautiful it looks! One of my wishes for you in 2018 and for the rest of your existence is to have peace and happiness within yourself, so that you can share your peace and happiness with others. In our Buddhist practice, we work daily on the Noble Eightfold Path of Right Understanding, Right Purpose, Right Speech, Right Conduct, Right Livelihood, Right Endeavor, Right Thought, and Right Mediation. A practice that’s mentioned in Buddhist scripture that has helped me tremendously is gratitude. Everyday, from the moment we wake up, we can be thankful for what we have such as the cozy bed that we just slept in; taste of hot green tea; orange glow of the morning sun; useful kitch- enware we use to make our tasty breakfast; and a quiet self-reflection or meditation. Start the morning with this peaceful gratitude practice, and you will power through the day with more gratitude and push through difficult situations with a balanced soul. Have a great 2018! With Warmest Aloha, Jon Riki Karamatsu President of Jodo Mission of Hawaii
- 3. Page 3 GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING As members of Jodo Mission of Hawaii, you are cordially welcome to attend the 2018 General Membership Meeting on Sunday, January 28, 2018 at 10:45 a.m., follow- ing the Sunday Service in the temple. Please join us and meet your Board of Directors. This past year Jodo Mission of Hawaii was involved in renovation work and we have not completed. We thank you for your patience. If you have any concerns you want to address, please do so at this General Membership meeting. Following the religious and business portion, please join us for a New Year’s party (see below). Shinnenkai 新年会 New Year’s Party Please join us for our New Year’s Party following the Annual General Member- ship meeting. All members and friends are invited—delicious food, lucky number. Date: Sunday, January 28 Time: 11:15 a.m. (after General Membership Meeting) Place: Jodo Mission Social Hall Hyakusai (100 year olds) 百 歳 We would like to honor all 100 year olds and older members at our New Year’s Party. To live to be 100 is amazing! If you know of anyone who will be 100 years old or older by January 28 and he/she will be attending the Shinnenkai, please call our office at 949-3995 with the name of the member. Thank you. Honolulu Jodo Shu Fujinkai On November 19, 2017, the Fujinkai ladies had their Appreciation Party (dim sum & noodles) to thank volunteers who came to help at Bon Dance and also to thank the Fujinkai ladies who helped with family service refreshments and O-Bon Service lunch and dinners for the ministers and workers. From ad- vertising in our Bulletin, the Fujinkai ladies were able to receive some volun- teers to help with in sushi making, gyoza making, yaki soba making, and the selling of all their cooking items. After the party, Sally Hayashi, president, realized she forgot one very important person, Richard Karamatsu who worked very hard helping with the yaki soba in the huge wok. He worked two nights and how could she forget him! Without his help, she would have had to stir the yaki soba all night herself. THANK YOU RICHARD and hope you come back next year at Bon Dance! Everyone who attended had a won- derful time not only with good food but games like the memory game and jan ken po, etc. ARIGATO to the many supporters of Honolulu Jodo Shu Fu- jinkai!
- 4. UPDATE ON RENOVATIONS This is to report on the progress of renovations to our temple. As reported in the Decem- ber Bulletin, the renovation work continues. Most of the renovation work to the temple will be done by the time this Bulletin reaches you. One large portion will be done sometime early next year—the awning in the back of the temple above the temple bell (that portion between the two Nokotsudo or Col- umbarium rooms). During the awn- ing replacement period, the Noko- tsudo rooms may be closed for your safety. There are a lot of spalling which need to be repaired when the awning is taken off and before the new awning placed. Spalling is when rain water seeps into the cement and meets the rebar or metal inside the cement and over time the metal rusts and pops the cement and cracks appear. Please call the temple office if you have any questions. Stairs to the Nokotsudo have been repaired. See photos below of the landing area which was repaired, and it looks beautiful now! The back stairway to the office also had a lot of spalling and the railings repaired. A horizontal pillar had spalling crack which was repaired. >>> Page 4 Stairway below—after spalling fixed, stairs were painted & protec- tive coating applied. Thank you everyone for your patience and cooper- ation!
- 5. Page 5 GYOKI-E CHUTOBA FORM 2018（御忌会中塔婆申し込み用紙） Deadline: January 10, 2018 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: _______/______/ 2018 (In person / Mail / By phone) Received by: _______________ Date paid: _______/______/ 2018 (Cash / Check # __________ ) Write_______ Gyoki-e (Honen Shonin’s Memorial Service) Gyoki-e means the memorial service for Honen Shonin. Honen Shonin, who is the founder of Jodo Shu, passed away on January 25th, 1212. He was 80 years old. After Honen Shonin passed away, his disciples and believers started to have a memorial service for him on the 25th of every month. The biggest ceremony was held on 25th of January 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 anniver- sary of the deaths of the Emperors or their wives. The word “Gyoki” was such a respectable word for the Emperor's family. Three hundred years after Honen Shonin passed away, Emperor Gokashiwabaa mandated Jodo Shu tto call the anniversary of Honen Shonin’s death “Gyoki” Founder of Jodo Shu : Honen Shonin Gyoki-e Service January 21 at 10 a.m. ____ I plan to attend service ____ I do not plan to attend “Gyoki”. Since then, people 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 21st at 10 a.m. Please join us. Chutoba is available for this Gyoki-e service. At this service you may also honor your deceased ances- tors with a Chutoba prayer. See above for the Chutoba order form. IMPORTANT: If you see anything suspicious, please go to the temple office and tell them what strange person or things you saw. While visiting the temple, whether it is for a service or if you are visiting the Nokotsudo or Columbarium, etc., if you see any strange person(s), please go to the temple office to report what or who you saw and where you saw the person or thing. This is very important! This is for the safety of everyone. Thank you.
- 6. Jodo Mission Office Hours: Monday to Saturday: 8am—5pm Sunday & Holidays: 8am—3pm Phone: 949-3995 Website: www.jodo.us Page 6 Rev. Kanjun Nakano Resident Minister FAQ: How should we discard Kagami Mochi? ANS: Because of the unique climate of Hawaii, Kagami Mochi gets moldy much faster than in Japan. Therefore, it is recommended to take the mochi down after the first three holy days of the New Year (i.e. on January 4th), although it is a common practice in Japan to keep them until January 11th. After you take them down, it is best to eat them very soon. 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 wrap them with white paper such as paper towel, and then throw them away. Or you may soak the moldy Kagami Mochi in water so the mold will easily rub off the mochi and can be eaten in soups, fried or can be cooked over the hibachi. Bishop Yubun Narashiba Temple Cleaning Day: Thank you everyone who came on Sunday, December 10, 2017 for general cleaning of the temple, in- cluding the Columbarium or Noko- tsudo, Ikoi Hall and polishing the tem- ple’s candle holders, etc. Your hard work and dedication to the Temple are deeply appre- ciated, especially with your aches and pains! Thank you to the Sunday School and Junior YBA who treated everyone to a delicious pizza lunch and visit by Santa. The Sunday School students decorated gingerbread houses. Everyone who Our Sunday School: 1st row: Jax, Declan, Strider; 2nd row: Takeru, Sophie, Santa with Wyatt and A’Marie came had a wonderful time! ARIGATO Sunday School & Junior YBA!
- 7. 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 Tokusaburo Fukuda’s Father Hon-yo Jo-dai Shin-ji The Fukuda Family The Nakabayashi 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 Tomoyo Yanagihara 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 The Morinaga Family 6 Kikuyo Yamasaki Eiichi Fujita Shigeharu Ohata Sachiko Okada Roy Hideo Fujita Alice Minako Kawasugi 7 Jiro Oyabu The Oyabu & Kondo Family Kazuko Nomiyama Tetsuko Miyamoto Kama Takara Ruth Shigeko Tarumoto Yurie Tanaka Buffins 8 Matsujiro Otani (2) The Otani Family (2) The Yanagihara Family Toshio Isoibe The Isobe Family Taketo Sumimoto (2) Juichi Uesugi Fusataro Higuchi Kenji Miyakawa Nobu Kishimoto Gilbert Hideo Otani 9 Taka Tomonari The Tomonari Family Asa Hayashi Hisako Takamura 10 Hiroko Yoza The Yoza Family Kami Higa The Higa Family Bishop Ninryo Nago (2) 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 (2) 12 Heiji Fukuda (2) The Fukuda Family Nagao Yamada Shokichi Harada 13 Bishop Jiko Kuya Shima Morita (2) Shizue Fujita Kinmatsu Nakagawa 14 Akitaka Chikamoto The Ohta Family Genzo Yanagihara The Yanagihara Family Tsuchiyo Kimoto Miyoko Kaya James Akira Tamura 15 Tane Nagata (2) The Nagata Family Sukeichi Kameoka The Kameoka Family 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 (2) The Daitoku Family (2) The Kochi Family Katsutoshi Takata The Takata Family Itaro Kurihara The Kurihara Family Masao Ishii Richard 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 Ronald Kochi 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 The Ohta Family 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 Hisayo Higashi Helen Fusaye Morita 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 Stanley Takayuki Ajimura 31 You Kawamura The Kawamura Family Shizuko Aoyama Kaname Yamanaka Takeo Tanaka Harold Shigeno Ohara Perpetual Memorial Service (Eitaikyo) For January 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. Alice Hanayo Fujita 86 Hanayo Ikeda 99 Samuel Tsukasa Setogawa 94 Maurice Sadao Fujie 69 Chiyeko Hayamoto 97 Yoshiko Fujimoto 96 Minako Toma 86 Aiko Yasumoto 98 Ernest Kenji Yasaka 90