The monthly newsletter of the Jodo Mission of Hawaii for August 2013.

1. JodoMissionofHawaii
Bulletin-SEPTEMBER2013
JodoMissionofHawaii
1429MakikiSt.
HonoluluHI96814
AddressServiceRequested
(#1202-0913)
September 8—Keiro Kai and Grandparents’ Day
The Intermediate YBA and Sunday School will honor our Keiro members (all those 80
years old and older) on Sunday, September 8, at 10 a.m. Please join us if you are able to
come. Also, younger generation, please bring your parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles
who are 80 years and older to join this event! It will be a special treat for them!

2. Collecting Donations for Bazaar
Our Bazaar will be held on Sunday, October 27. If you
have any donations, please bring them to the Temple!
Please separate your donations by categories (clothing,
kitchen utensils and dishes, toys, trinkets, books) and please
mark the categories. Jodo Mission will not pick up your do-
nations. Thank you for your understanding.
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Parking Lot Has Been Repaved!
Please come and see our newly repaved parking lot!
After 30 years, the parking lot is again like new! No more
pot holes! There was a lot of time and effort and of course
money involved in having the parking lot re-
paved. Pacific International Paving, Ltd. did
the paving. Special thank you to Elizabeth
Karimoto of Blue Sky Realty who coordinated
all the apartment renters with the special scheduling, i.e.
where and when parking was available. Also, thank you to
our neighbors, Shriners Hospital for Children and Hawai-
ian Mission Academy for accommodating the apartment
renters’ as well as our ministers’ vehicles when it was not
possible to park on any part of the temple grounds. Thank
you also to Rev. Narashiba who was the contact person.

3. BON DANCE (August 16-17, 2013)
THANK YOU, THANK YOU to everyone who participated in our Bon Dance
held on August 16-17, 2013. There were so many, many people helping behind the scenes
and we really appreciate all your hard work. It is with everyone’s help that we can continue
to do this event. Without someone arranging with the bon dancers, getting the yagura up,
arranging for the stairway to get on top of the yagura, someone setting up chairs so people
could sit down, someone getting the omamoris, also someone selling omamoris, bon dance
towels, happi coats, kimonos, parking attendants, making and selling andagis (Okinawan do-
nuts), someone making and selling the Jodo Mission special shaved ice, someone making
and selling musubis, spam musubis, someone making and selling chichi dango, someone or-
dering and selling saimin, someone making and selling grilled BBQ sticks, someone making
and selling sushi, yaki soba, soba salad, pull pork sandwiches, someone making and selling
hot dogs, chili and rice, someone making and selling waffle dogs, hamburgers, someone
making sure that all the trash cans were not overflowing with trash, someone answering the
many questions people called about, including “how do I get to Jodo Mission?” or “where
can I park?”
Thank you also to the many, many dancers who came and had fun dancing. We could not
do it without you.
We hope everyone had time to catch up with old friends, made new friends, got together
with your relatives!!
Below, please find photos of some of those who participated in our Bon Dance.
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Jizo Bon Prayer: Our Jizo-sama statue has
returned from Japan and is repaired. It is so
nice to see it at the entrance to Jodo Mission
of Hawaii. Above is Bishop Gensho Hara
and Rev. Kanjun Nakano conducting the
Jizo Bon Prayer with our Goeka group of
Tomoko Hisamoto, Sophie Narashiba and
Yukari Narashiba performing prior to the
opening of our Bon Dance. Please note they
are just under the beautiful bodhi tree with
their beautiful leaves
Yagura Set Up: Ian, Jo Ann, Henry,
Glenn, Rev. Narashiba, Rev. Nakano
and Rev. Watanabe
Yagura set up also means
setting up the lighting
system. Above Ian,
Ryan and Jo Ann find
the hole for the light
pole. The light pole is in
place!

4. BON DANCE (August 16-17, 2013)
Traffic: Rev. Narashiba was
directing traffic to the Temple.
Directing traffic at Hawaii Mis-
sion were Burt and Ryan.
Taking a break are Megan and
friend, both attending school in
Oregon (hope to see you next
year)!
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Dulcie Yano and her husband Alvin Yano
came from Kauai to help the YBA group in mak-
ing spam musubi, musubi, etc. Alvin’s sister was
Carol Yano who passed away early this year.
Each Bon Dance, Dulcie would travel from Kauai
and together with Carol’s cousin Amy Yano, they
would help Carol with the YBA. This year
Carol’s brother Alvin also made the trip and
helped out a lot with the chili—you could see him
traveling with pans of chili from the kitchen to
the social hall. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
Come again next year!
Taiko Instructor Tsutomu Nakai and his stu-
dents performed before the dancing began. So
much talent!
Andagis (Okinawan donuts) are very deli-
cious! There are always long lines. Kay
Oshiro looks on as the Kawamura family
help fry andagis. Each year the Kawamura
family, Ono family, Masatsugu family and
Yamauchi family come from Haleiwa to
help fry andagis. THANK YOU VERY
MUCH!
Faith Nekomoto comes each
year and helps Clifford at the
Choba table selling omamoris
and bon dance towels
Rocky Mishina
came to help Clifford
at the Choba table.
Jo Ann checked in with
Amy and Ralph getting
ready to sell saimin
Dancers going around the yagura.
Ryan Ozawa
paints with
steady hands
new date and
time on Bon
Dance ban-
ner.
When the paint
dried, Ryan, Ian &
Burt put the banner
up, which was not
an easy task. They
said they will do
better next year.
Thank you!

5. AUTUMN O-Higan Chutoba Form (彼岸会中塔婆申し込み用紙)
Your Name(お名前) : Phone（電話）:
Name of Deceased （亡くなった方のお名前）：
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One Chutoba is $7 X Total of Chutoba = Total $
（中塔婆1本7ドル） （本数） （合計）
Please make checks payable to “Jodo Mission of Hawaii”. DEADLINE: Sunday, September 15, 2013
FOR OFFICE USE ONLY
Order accepted by Date accepted / /2013 (In person/ Mail / By phone)
Received by Date paid: ________/______/2013 (Cash / Check #_____________) Write
O-HIGAN SERVICE
The word “Higan” literally means “the other shore” in
Japanese. One shore represents the world we are in, and the oth-
er shore “Higan” represents Amida Buddha’s Pure Land. The river
represents the bad mind we all possess. The concept is that we
practice the teaching to reach the other shore across the river.
We have two Higan seasons in a year. One in spring, the oth-
er in autumn, as Higan is held during the week of the spring and autumn equinox.
Shan Tao, one of the highest ranking priests of Jodo Buddhism in China said that the
sun sets due west during the equinox thus it is a good opportunity to think about Bud-
dha’s Pure Land which exists far away in the west, as well as appreciate our ances-
tors who are also there.
Please join us for our Higan-e service and think about Amida Buddha’s Pure
Land and our ancestors. Our Higan-e Service will be held:
Sunday, September 29 at 10:00 am
Chutoba prayers will be conducted during this service. If you would like a Chuto-
ba prayer for your ancestors, please fill out the form on this page and send it or drop it
off at the Jodo Mission office by Sunday, September 15th. Thank you.
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Higan Service
September 29 at 10 a.m.
____ I plan to attend service
____ I do not plan to attend

6. 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.
Edna Mariko Sakuda 84
Seiki Nakayama 92
Jodo Mission Office Hours:
Monday to Saturday
8am—5pm
Sunday & Holidays
8am—3pm
Phone: 949-3995
Website: www.jodo.us
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Rev. Yubun Narashiba
Head Minister
Rev. Kanjun Nakano
Resident Minister
Rev. Dwight
Nakamura
Retired Minister
Rev. Yasuhiro
Watanabe
Apology for August Eitaikyo List: We apologize
for not listing the following deceased person’s name:
8/11: Thomas Yoshiaki Shimizu
8/14 Shizuno Muraoka
More Bon Dance Photos:
Taiko Instructor Tsutomu Nakai and students
People enjoying the food and socializing with friends and
family before Bon Dance began.
Christine, Peggy, Kay, Susan, Lynn and Ed were selling
mochi, bentos, spam musubis, pull pork sandwiches, yaki soba,
soba salad, sushi (inari and maki sushi)

7. EITAIKYO (Perpetual Memorial Service) for September
Seijiro Mitsuyasu
The Mitsuyasu Family
Takao Nishimura
The Nishimura Family
Kamado Gushikuma
Kiku Sugimoto
The Sugimoto & Samoto Family
Yutaro Karamatsu
The Karamatsu Family
Kiku Kusunoki
The Kusunoki Family
Minbunosuke Sakuda
Eikichi Nakamoto
The Okamoto & Nakamoto Family
Reverend Hoyu Ohta
The Ohta Family
Katsume Kuniyuki
Shizuko Morita
Kikuno Mitsutani
Nobuo Yoshida
Eisuke Tamura
Kikuyo Iwamoto
Shigeki Hayashi
Yuriko Naito
Toramatsu Yamamoto
Kamekichi Shigeoka
Suteno Yoshida
Masaichi Toishigawa
Kichigoro Ikeda
Suke Muranaka
The Muranaka Family
Higashi Tojo
The Tojo Family
Toshiko Judy Yanagihara
Mitsue Shigeoka
Shunsuke Ogi
The Ogi Family
Shigeru Taketa
Yone Wakayama Umeda
Masako Koyama
Ritsu Inada (2)
The Inada Family (2)
The Morimoto Family
Tsune Kuniyuki
Shimo Hashimoto
Sana Tamura
Yukie Sakaue
Yorizo Yamane
TheYamane Family
The Harada Family
Ikuzo Kuniyuki
Nobuo Tsuda
Mike Shigeo Hara
Junji Sano
The Nishimoto Family
Sada Hayashi
The Hayashi Family
Masao Fukuzawa
Tsuneyasu Tamanaha
Umeyo Ohta
Taeko Stella Uehara
Kigoro Takada
The Takada Family
Kumayo Nomura
The Nomura Family
Yoshio Kawakami
Yasuichi Moritsugu
The Henry Hijii Family
Matsu Ohta
Kikuzuchi Takaoka
Toshio Mitani
Umeyo Nishimura
The Nishimura Family
Ishi Yagi
The Yagi & Okada Family
Takeji Ohara
Masaji Kawasugi
Shizue Masuda
Yuji Yokoyama
Ayako Nakata
James Hajime Koike
Shigenari Uesugi
Okaji Hashimoto
The Hashimoto Family
Fujie Nomiyama
Kinjuro Sugimoto
The Sugimoto & Samoto Family
Take Kitagawa
The Kitagawa Family
Tameo Shinntani
Kamejiro Uyeda
Hoichi Fujita
The Fujita Family
Mie Kashiwa
Fumiko Yamane
Nobuko Tsuruda
Kichijuro Miyashige
The Goto & Miyashige Family
Seitoku Higa
The Weiss Family
The Sunagawa Family
Fusae Ippongi
Shoichi Ishida
The ishida & Aimoto Family
The Iwamoto's Baby
The Iwamoto Family
Kiyoko Isobe
Kumanoshin Yamamoto (2)
Yoshiko Nakahara(2)
Wanda Akemi Hamada
Miyo Koyama
The Koyama Family
Keikichi Mishina
The Mishina Family
Kame Higa
The Higa Family
Ruth Yoshiko Medeiros
Tsuchitaro Iwamoto
Eleanor Haruko Nose
Kiyoshi Matsushita
The Matsushita Family
Yoshiaki Ono
The Ono & Yamada Family
Yoshio Uchiumi
Riichi Hirouji
Ryuichi Hamada
The Hamada Family
The Sakauye Family
Shieto Saiki
Aya Asaumi
Haruyo Yanagihara
Kamematsu Onohara
Mitsuru Harada
The Nishimura's Baby
Seiichi Tanaka
The Tanaka & Takahashi Family
Hakuyo Ebisuzaki (2)
Goro Shindo
Kimi Morita
The Morita & Ashinaka Family
Natsue Hayashi
The Hayashi Family
Kiku Tanimura
The Tanimura Family
Ryosuke Yanagisawa
The Yanagisawa Family
Ushi Shimabukuro
Akio Shimabukuro
The Shimabukuro Family
Kiyo Yamachika
The Yamachika &
Matsushige Family
Ishi Uyenoyama
Yuu Kunihisa
Yoshiwa Tarumoto
Chieko Yamamura
Francis Kiyoshi Furutani
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