The monthly newsletter of the Jodo Mission of Hawaii for June 2014.

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JodoMissionofHawaii
1429MakikiStreet
HonoluluHI96814
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JodoMissionofHawaii
Bulletin-JUNE2014
JODO MISSION OF HAWAII
Volunteer Office Worker Needed
Fridays: June 6, 13, 20, 27 and July 8
9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Duties include: answering the telephone, receiving reservations for memorial ser-
vices, taking messages, collecting payments, answering the Nokotsudo or Colum-
barium buzzer to let someone in to visit the Nokotsudo. It is quite interesting. You
get to meet all kinds of people and at the same time, you will learn a lot about Jodo
Mission and Jodo Shu.
In preparation for the O-Bon season, the O-Tobas need to be written and the
minister needs to concentrate on the O-Toba he is working on so having
someone answer the telephone while the minister is writing an O-Toba
or doing a memorial service or getting ready for a funeral
would be greatly appreciated. If you are interested, please
contact
Rev. Narashiba at 949-3995.

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O-Bon Service Schedule
O-Bon Services will be held as follows:
Friday, July 25 – 10:00 am (Hatsubon Families Only)
2:00 pm & 7:00pm
Saturday, July 26 – 10:00 am (Hatsubon Families Only)
2:00 pm & 7:00pm
Sunday, July 27 – 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 27 at 10:00am. After Closing Service,
cleanup will begin.
Parking Attendants Needed: We are in need of at least 6 parking attendants for
each 2 pm and 7 pm services. Please call Jodo Mission at 949-3995 if you are able
to help direct cars to parking spaces. We appreciate your help.
Private O-Toba Service Appointments: If you wish to have prayers offered in
front of your O-Toba, appointments are being accepted from 8:00 am to 6:45 pm
from Tuesday, July 15 to 10 a.m. on Sunday, July 27, 2014.
Arigato
Arigato for your many orders of O-Tobas. We are happy that you
remembered your deceased family members and we will do our best
to see that your O-Tobas are prepared at your request. After July 13
when the O-Tobas are set up, please remember to also visit your
O-Tobas.
June 30: DEADLINE: Chutoba & Chochin Orders
July 13: O-Toba Set Up & General Cleaning -
YOUR HELP IS NEEDED
July 25-27: O-Bon Services
Aug.15-16: Bon Dance
Important Dates

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Introduction of Sho-ryo Dana in O-Bon
Butsudan
1) Incense: Purify the area of Sho-
ryo Dana with the smoke of
incense
2) Flower: Flower is a symbol of
purity. There are numerous
flowers in the Pure Land.
3) Water: Water is a symbol of
offering. The offered water is
called “AKA” that is translated
from a Sanskrit word “Argha”,
the most valuable thing.
4) Candle: A candle light is show-
ing us the light of wisdom and
compassion of Amida Buddha.
5), 6) Cucumber and Eggplant
with sticks: With a Cucumber,
make a horse (using sticks) for
your ancestors to return home
early. Make a Cow with an Egg
plant (using sticks) for them to
return to the Pure Land slowly.
7) Mizu-noko: The fresh cut egg-
plant and cucumber with washed
rice. Offering food in prayer to
help everyone from hunger in any
realms. (Optional)
8) Some rice in a bowl of Water
and a leaf of Lythrum ancepts:
This expands food limitlessly.
(Optional)
9) Nishime without meat: A tradi-
tional Japanese food used as mon-
asterial food called Sho-jin
Ryo-ri.
10) Somen noodle: Somen noodle is
a symbolic food for longevity.
11) Fruits and vegetables: Offer
gifts of nature to Buddha and
ancestors.
12) Mochi or any favorite food: Offer gifts of nature
to Buddha and ancestors.
13) Bamboo grass: Protection to keep away the bad
spirits from the Sho-ryo Dana.
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4. Getting Ready for O-Bon: Most people offer flowers, fruits and veg-
etables, candies and drinks. Each O-Toba has about a 6 inch by 6 inch
space for you to work with; otherwise you are into someone else’s space. The
photo at left shows someone with flowers and fruits and as
you can see there is not a lot of space. Last year, Marie
Otani had graciously shared some of her family’s customs and we would
like to repeat some of them:
While the O-Tobas are up during the O-Bon season, it is important and
customary to attend to the O-Tobas, similar to caring for gravesites or niches. Over the many
O-Bon seasons that our family has observed at Jodo Mission, we have developed our style of
caring for our O-Toba. We typically attend to those tasks as soon as the O-Toba is set up,
usually on the Sunday before the start of the O-Bon services.
Flowers are placed at the base of the O-Toba. The temple sets up a basin and makes
available empty glass jars near the fence facing the freeway. But during the year, our family
sets aside suitable jars and we use those instead, leaving the available jars for others. To keep
them from tipping over with our trade winds, we tie the jars loosely to the base of the O-Toba.
To help the flowers stay fresher longer, we cut the flower stems under water.
Food for the ancestors is placed on the shelf in front of the O-Toba. We typically get
oranges since they last longer and are resistant to the weather. To prevent the orange from
rolling on the shelf, we put the orange in a paper bowl. To allow rain water to drain, we poke
holes in the base of the bowl. Then we attach the bowl to the shelf with a little tape, being
careful not to block the drain holes. Blue painter’s tape leaves little or no residue.
THANK YOU Marie for sharing. Please note that everyone is welcome to use the
empty bottles provided near the water basin usually located near the fence facing the free-
way as Marie mentioned above.
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Mother’s Day Photos
Three happy Sunday School mothers:
Hitomi Paraso, Makoh Nii, Yukari
Narashiba!
Photo of oldest mother (Yoshiko
Kitakawa) and oldest Sunday
School student(A’Marie Paraso)
The Intermediate
YBA treated every-
one with a delicious
lunch. THANK
YOU Sunday
School, Intermedi-
ate YBA, Sunday
School coordinator
Kay Oshiro and
Sunday School ad-
visor Rev. Nakano.
Sunday School honored their mothers and
all women who attended with red carnations.

5. OBON CHUTOBA ORDER FORM
Obon Services will be held Friday, July 25th
to Sunday, July 27th
, at Jodo Mission of Hawaii
DEADLINE: June 30, 2014
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）
On which day are you coming?
（いつお参りにこられますか？）
Please circle date and time.
Fri, July 25 2 pm or 7 pm
Sat, July 26 2 pm or 7 pm
Sun, July 27 10 am
Or
Cannot attend the service
ORDER FORM FOR CHOCHIN （LANTERN、ちょうちん申し込み用紙）
DEADLINE: June 30, 2014
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.____________________________________________________________
LARGE(大)＿＿＿＿×＄10.00 + SMALL(小)＿＿＿＿×＄7.00 = TOTAL（合計）＄______________
FOR OFFICE USE ONLY
Order accepted by : _______________ Date accepted : _______/______/ 2014 ( In person / Mail / By phone )
Received by : _______________ Date paid : _______/______/ 2014 (Cash / Check # __________ ) Write_______
( Cut )
FOR OFFICE USE ONLY
Order accepted by : _______________ Date accepted : _______/______/ 2014 ( In person / Mail / By phone )
Received by : _______________ Date paid : _______/______/ 2014 (Cash / Check # __________ ) Write_______
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6. Jodo Mission Office Hours:
Monday to Saturday: 8am—5pm
Sunday & Holidays: 8am—3pm
Phone: 949-3995
Website: www.jodo.us
Rev. Yubun Narashiba
Head Minister
Rev. Kanjun Nakano
Resident Minister
Rev. Dwight
Nakamura
Retired Minister
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2014 BON DANCE SCHEDULE
OF JODO SHU TEMPLES
Island Temple Phone No. Dates Times
Oahu Betsuin 949-3995 Aug 15 to 16 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Haleiwa 637-4382 July 18 to 19 7/18: 8 pm – 10 pm
7/19: 8 pm – 11 pm
Big Island
[Hawaii]
Kurtistown
Call Rev. Miyazaki
(808) 935-6996
August 2 8:00 pm
Hilo July 18 to 19 7/18: 7:30 pm
7/19: 8:00 pm
Hakalau August 16 8:00 pm
Hamakua
Call Rev. Wansa
(808) 775-0965
August 9 6:30 pm
Kohala July 12 6:30 pm
Hawi August 2 6:30 pm
Maui Kahului Call Rev. John Hara
(808) 244-0066
August 9 7:00 pm
Wailuku June 20 7:00 pm
Lahaina (808) 661-4304 July 5 7:00 pm
Kapaa (808) 822-4319 June 6 to 7 7:30 pmKauai
Koloa (808) 742-6735 July 18 to 19 7:30 pm
Bishop Gensho Hara
Lahaina, Maui
Father’s Day
June 15th is Father’s Day
We always remember our Mothers,
but do we always remember our
Fathers?
Please come to our Father’s Day
Service and honor your father by
your presence on June 15th at 10 a.m.
Stuart Nago will play a song on his ukulele
or guitar

7. 1 Tatsuo Nonaka
2 Takayo Fukuda
The Fukuda Family
Yasuichi Nakai
The Nakai Family
Kikue Tejima
The Tejima Family
Yasu Kawamura
Fujio Fujita
4 Rui Yasumoto
Shizutaro Kimura
Fujiko Teruya
Katsu Yokoyama
Susan Teruko Lubick
Rose Kikue Hata
5 Kamematsu Kano
The Kano & Watanabe
Families
Shuichi Arakawa
Yoshikazu Ebisuzaki
Tamon Yamaguchi
Japanese Marines
6 Chujiro Nishimura
The Nishimura Family
Matsu Wakagi
The Wakagi Family
Tomo Daitoku (2)
The Daitoku, Fujimoto,
& Kawauchi Families
Shinichi Fukuda
The Fukuda Family
Miyoshi Takara
7 Ayako Morikawa
The Morikawa Family
Taki Asai
Kichi Kunihisa
Shina Kotake
8 Soichi Hirano
The Hirano & Kaneko
Families
The Hirota Family
Saku Yokoyama
9 Sueko Tanimura
The Tanimura Family
Kenzaburo Ishii
The Ishii Family
Emi Kawamoto
10 Hosuke Miyagawa
The Miyagawa Family
Ariki Fujimoto
Hisako Mitani
Mieko Ono
BerthaTakako Homareda
12 Bunjiro Umemoto
The Umemoto Family
Mitsuyoshi Okamura
The Okamura Family
13 Charlse Harumi
Takabayashi (2)
Jeane SachikoEbisuzaki
14 Masuzo Konaka
The Konaka, Yano,
& Hayashi Families
Kiichi Morisako
Katsuko Sakakibara
Shigeki Narahara
15 Yoshio Morita
The Morita Family
Kikutaro Higashide
The Higashide
& Fuyukawa Families
Albert Akira Sakuda
16 Onichi Chinen
The Chinen Family
Chiyo Heirakuji
Harry NoboruMatsumoto
Iwao Oki
17 Natsu Kawamura
The Kawamura Family
Senjiro Ogawa
Ichiro Nakatsuka
The Hirotsu Family
Helen Miyoko Oda
Hachijiro Homareda
18 Bunkichi Kamimura
Tama Morita
The Morita Family
Chiyo Mori
Hatsuyo Yoshikawa
Kame Uyehara
The Uyehara family
Kay KimikoYamamoto
JaniceYoshiko Kitashiro
19 Kiyomatsu Ueno
The Ueno Family
Shinei Kanehira
The Kanehira Family
Mitsuru Ogi
Kenichi Naito
Sam SaburoTaniguchi
Kikuyo Morioka
Miyoshi Akashi
20 Hisataro Yanagihara
The Yanagihara Family
Naoji Yokoyama
Moushi Kobashigawa
Kame Uyehara
Ichitaro Matsuda
Hisakichi Yamamoto
Wade Kenji Sakai
21 Sumi Takeda
The Takeda Family
Komanoshin Masatsugu
Teruo Masatsugu
Ayako Tasaka
Suzuko Shigehara
Yoshito Charles Oshita
22 Isuke Iwasaki
Murakami's Baby
Kazumi Mizuta
Yoshimi Maruuchi
Edward Isamu Kimoto
Moshi Takara
Takara’s Baby
23 Isamu Yonemoto
The Yonemoto Family
Yoshio Higa
The Higa Family
Yoshiko Hamasaki
Jonosuke Arakawa
Kosuke Takara
Kihachi Kishimoto
24 Yoshito Ebisuya
The Ebisuya Family
The Fujii Family
Tokiko Karakake
25 Hana Mitsutani
The Mitsutani Family
Nobuyuki Nishida
Yukio Hirata
Akio Nathon Tagami
26 Fuji Yano
The Yano, Konaka,
& Hayashi Families
Daizo Kawamura
The Kawamura Family
Mokunosuke Taniguchi
Isamu Nakano
Keigo Soma
Claris SadakoYamamoto
27 Ron Kiyoshi Amasaki
Akira Shimoda
28 Shintaro Masuda
The Masuda & Asamura
Families
Ryoshichi Himuro
The Himuro Family
Kiyoichi Oshiro
29 Kumanosuke Morikawa
The Morikawa Family
Sadamu Yanagihara
The Yanagihara Family
Kinuyo Karimoto
Ziu Takaoka
Kiichi Takaoka
Shizuko Heirakuji
Grace Kawafuchi
30 Hana Ishizaki
Tsurue Nagaishi
The Nakauye Family
John Yoshito Nakauye
Koei Takara
Gerald Kenji Sato
EITAIKYO (Perpetual Memorial Service) for June
Obituaries
The Jodo Mission of Hawaii
extends its sincere condo-
lences to the family mem-
bers and loved ones of the
following members who have
recently left this world for
the Pure Land.
Thomas Hiroaki Furuike 83
Herbert Kazumi Doi 90
Fusaye Mizuta 99

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Phone:949-3995
Website:www.jodo.us
10amJuzukuriService
8:30amFujinkaiMeeting
10:00amObetsujiService
10:00SundayService
June30:DEADLINE:Chutoba&ChochinOrders
July13:O-TobaSetUp&GeneralCleaningbefore
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July18-19HaleiwaJodoMissionBonDance
July25-27:O-BonServicesatJodoMissionofHawaii
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8:00SewingCircle
YBAConventiononHilo
YBAConvention—Hilo
10:00SundayFather’s
DayService
8:00SewingCircle
10:00amSundayService
11:45BoardMeeting
FujinkaiMeeting
(Women’sassociation)
6/1@8:30a.m.
SundaySchool
NoSundaySchoolin
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SewingCircle
6/14&6/28
8:00–11:00am
YBA:ConventioninHilo:6/6to6/8