***New Years Greetings ***

Gensho Hara, Bishop

Shinnen Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu! Reciting Namu Amida

Butsu, embraced by the great compassion and wisdom of Amida Buddha, 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 commitment 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 youour members, ministers, families, and
friendsfor 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 Buddhas Name is a sacred temple. But we are especially fortunate to have our templeswhere our ancestors and loved ones went to during
times of celebration and happiness as well as trouble and sadnessas 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 inu ed on pa ge 2 ]

Address Service Requested

Jodo Mission of Hawaii

1429 Makiki St.
Honolulu HI 96814
(#1218-0115)

Bulletin - JANUARY 2015

Jodo Mission of Hawaii

Continuation of Bishop Haras 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 Matsuo 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 compassionate light of Amida Buddha guide us always.
With Gassho,
Gensho Hara, Bishop

New Years Greetings

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 teachings, 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 Years 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, lets start a brandnew New Year!
If many good things happened to you during the past year, lets pray for more good things to
happen in this year again. If you lost your beloved ones, lets 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. Lets 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

Deadline: January 7, 2015
YOUR NAMEPHONE
NAME OF DECEASED

Gyoki-e Service
January 18 at 10 a.m.

1._________________________________________________________
2.____________________________________________________________
3.____________________________________________________________

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I plan to attend service

I do not plan to attend

4.____________________________________________________________

One Chutoba is $ 7.00 Total of Chutoba Total

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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 Shonins Memorial Service)
Gyoki-e means the memorial service for Honen Shonin.
Honen Shonin, who is a 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 anniversary of the deaths of
the Emperors or their wives. The
word Gyoki was such a respectable word for the Emperor's family.
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Three hundred years later,

after Honen Shonin passed away,
the Emperor Gokashiwabara
mandated Jodo Shu to call the
anniversary of Honen Shonins
death 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 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 Chutoba prayer. See above Chutoba
order form.

Founder of Jodo Shu :

Honen Shonin
(1133-1212)

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 Years party (see below).

S hinnenka i New Years Party

Please join us for our New Years Party following the Annual General Membership 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 Years Party are former dormitory residents of Jodo Mission 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.

MAHALO
Thank you everyone who came for general
clean-up of the Temple, including the Columbarium or Nokotsudo on December 12,
2014. Your hard work and dedication to the
Temple are deeply appreciated.
Thank you to the Sunday School and Intermediate YBA for the delicious pizza luncheon and visit by Santa. What an enjoyable
treat after general cleaning!

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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.

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 during the morning service. The prayers will continue 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 application is accepted, the name will be listed on the
record.

Obituaries

Jodo Mission Office Hours:

Monday to Saturday: 8am5pm
Sunday & Holidays: 8am3pm

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

Bishop Gensho Hara

Lahaina, Maui
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Rev. Yubun Narashiba

Head Minister

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
Allen Iwao Kamibayashiyama
Shigeko Aoki
Dorothy Nishimura Murashige
Hisako Fujimoto

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73
89
85
99

Rev. Kanjun Nakano

Rev. Dwight Nakamura

Resident Minister

Bishop Emeritus

Perpetual Memorial Service (Eitaikyo)

For January 2014
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 Tokusaburos 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

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

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
Taka Tomonari
The Tomonari Family
Asa Hayashi
Hisako Takamura

10 Hiroko Yoza
The Yoza Family
Kami Higa
The Higa Family

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

10:00 Gyoki-e Service

(Honen Shonins Memorial
Service)

11:45 am Board Meeting

10:00am Family Service

(Sunday School will join)

10:00 Sunday Service

8:30am Fujinkai Mtg.

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Mon

27

20

13

Tue

Sewing Circle: No class

YBA: No meeting

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22

Jan. 4: 8:30 am

(womens association)

Ikoi Hall

Thu

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S und a y Sc ho o l

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Fri

Sat

Website: www.jodo.us

Phone: 949-3995

Jodo Mission of Hawaii

We welcome children to join our Sunday

School. Lets enjoy studying Onembutsu by
doing various activities.
Next Meeting: Sunday, Feb. 16 @ 10:45 am

10:00 NEW YEAR

SERVICE

15

F u jinka i

Deadline to Order
Chutoba

14

Wed

January 2015

COMING EVENTS: Feb. 8, 2015 Nehan-e Family Service

Feb 15, 2015 Taisho University & Bukkyo University here
Feb 22, 2015 Fujinkai New Years party
Feb 22, 2015 Den Den Moshi Panel Theater Students

11:30 am New Years Party

in Social Hall (Sunday School
will also join party)

10am Sunday Service

General Membership Meeting;
Installation of Officers

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Sun

9:30am Morning Service

Everyday