This bulletin from the Jodo Mission of Hawaii provides information about upcoming events including: 1) The 2014 Bon Dance schedule for Jodo Shu temples across Hawaii. 2) A request for a volunteer office worker and details about the role. 3) Guest speakers at recent Sunday services including Dr. George Tanabe and Audrey Emiko Kitagawa. 4) Announcements about upcoming observances and services including Mother's Day and Memorial Day. 5) Obituaries for recent deceased members.

1. JodoMissionofHawaii
Bulletin-MAY2014
(#1210-0514)
JodoMissionofHawaii
1429MakikiSt.
HonoluluHI96814
AddressServiceRequested
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 7/26: 8 pm – 10 pm
7/27: 8 pm – 11 pm
Big Island
[Hawaii]
Kurtistown
Call Rev. Miyazaki
(808) 935-6996
August 2 8:00 pm
Hilo July 19 to 20 7/12: 7:30 pm
7/13: 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 4 to 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

2. Volunteer Office Worker Needed
We are in need of a volunteer office worker from June 1,
2014 to July 8, 2014 from 9 am to 2 pm on either Mondays or
Fridays. Duties include: answering the telephone, receiving reser-
vations for memorial services, taking messages, collecting pay-
ments, answering the Nokotsudo or Columbarium 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 an-
swer 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.
Getting Ready for O-Bon:
Many of you have signed up
for your O-Toba. Now, it
may be time to think about
what you will offer at your
O-Toba.
Please share your family’s tradi-
tion regarding the O-Toba. There are
some families who probably coordi-
nate what they are bringing and what
type of container they are using.
Some are so neatly stacked when so
many families come to the same O-
Toba. We would like to hear from
you. Thank you.
Special Needs: For those who do
not want to climb many stairs, see
below:
Elevator: Please note that we
do have an elevator which is located
on the seaside of the Temple. Please
ring the bell at the back door of the
Temple for assistance.
Service in Ikoi Hall: If you
would like to have your service on the
first floor, you may do so by request-
ing the service be held in Ikoi Hall in-
stead of walking up the stairs.
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Guest Speakers
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Jodo Mission of Hawaii has been very fortunate for two Sundays
in a row to have such distinguished guests as speakers.
On Sunday, April 6, 2014, the Hawaii Buddhist Council cele-
brated Shakyamuni Buddha’s Birthday with a Buddha Day Service
or sometimes referred to as Hanamatsuri Service. Dr. George
Tanabe, the professor emeritus of religion was the guest speaker.
At this service there were members from seven denominations of
Buddhist temples: Higashi Honwanji Mission, Honpa Hongwanji mission, Jodo Mission of
Hawaii, Koyasan Shingon Mission, Nichiren Mission of Hawaii, Soto Mission of Hawaii and
Tendai Mission of Hawaii. There were offerings of flowers made by each denomination.
Then it was time for Dr. Tanabe who spoke on “How Old Is The Buddha?” He talked about
the denominational Buddhism which is declining because of the declining membership and
the changing of times from the plantation days to present. However the popularity of tradi-
tional Buddhism should be noted. Traditional Buddhism can be traced back to Shakyamuni
Buddha. He said try searching the internet for “mindfulness’ and you will find many, many,
many hits. He ended his talk with “how old is the Buddha?” The answer is as old as you
are! We will continue in future Bulletins to cover “mindfulness” which is said to improve
one’s well being, physical health, and mental health.
On Sunday April 13, we were so happy to have as our guest speaker, Audrey Emiko
Kitagawa, who was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii and who is the
daughter of long time Jodo Shu member Yoshiko Kitagawa. Ms. Kitagawa
is a cum laude graduate of the University of Southern California and a grad-
uate of Boston College Law School. After practicing law for twenty years,
she retired and is now President and Founder of the International Academy
for Transcultural Cooperation, President of the Light of Awareness Interna-
tional Spiritual Family. She lives in New York is involved in many world-
wide organizations.
It is just amazing how her Spiritual Family here in Hawaii came to the temple the week
before her arrival and started cleaning the windows and making sure everything was just right
when she arrived. So many of her Spiritual Family came to support her and it was just so
nice to see so many people at our temple. Some members could
not find parking and decided to go home. They missed out on a
wonderful talk by Ms. Kitagawa who began her talk by paying
tribute to her mother who turned 95 the day after. Ms. Kitagawa
showed 2 very short videos showing some of the places she has
traveled over the years, a good will ambassador doing good deeds.
At the end of her talk she had singer Alan Fisher play the piano
and sing Happy Birthday and Sweet (Leilani) “Yoshiko” her mom.
Everyone was treated to a book entitled “Learning in the Light” and to a wonderful lunch.
So many of Ms. Kitagawa’s friends showed up, including Rev. Irene Matsumoto of Palolo
Kwannon Temple (pictured in the photo above next to Yoshiko Kitagawa).

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Mini Concert by former
students of Rev. Kanjun
Nakano. As part of the Buddha
Day Service, three former students
of Rev. Nakano came to Hawaii
from Japan: Hitomi Kawase
(extreme right in photo) and Mayumi
Tanaka (extreme left on photo) both
played the piano in duet. The sing-
er of the group is Yasuyo Sugino
(in center with Rev. Nakano). All three
were so professional! Rev. Nakano
is so proud of them. Hope they
will come back again!
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Photos from Buddha Day Service
The Honpa Hongwanji
Betsuin Choir with guest
speaker Dr. George
Tanabe in the last row to
the right and Choir Pia-
nist Francis Okano is also
in the last row. Choir
Conductor Mari Muraka-
mi is missing from this
photo. Also to the left
are Hitomi, Mayumi and
Yatsuyo, although
Yatsuyo face is blacked.
Pouring sweet tea over
Baby Buddha is one of the
first thing one does at Bud-
dha Day Service
Bishop Ryokan Ara (HBC President) was the
Officiant at this service.
Everyone is listening to Dr. George Tanabe
Collection of Offertory—the volunteer students from
Punahou High School helped collect offerings.

5. A n n o u n c e m e n t s
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May 11th Is Mother’s Day
(Haha No Hi)
Mother’s Day is celebrated as an expres-
sion of love and appreciation to mothers.
Please come to our Mother’s Day Service
on May 11 at 10:00 a.m.
Flowers Needed for Lei Making
on Friday, May 23, 2014
Please bring Plumeria or other small flow-
ers for leis to Jodo Mission on Thursday,
May 22, 2014.
Everyone is invited to
join us on May 23, 2014
beginning at 8 am for our
Memorial Day lei making
project. Please come and
help us sew leis for our veterans at Punchbowl
Cemetery. Lunch will be provided.
Children’s Day (May 5)
In Japan, since 1948, May 5 has
been a national holiday known
as “Children’s Day” or
“Kodomo no hi”. This national
holiday in Japan was decreed to
celebrate the happiness, health
and growth of all children.
Most notable are carp
shaped streamers. The
carp was chosen because
it symbolizes strength
and success and accord-
ing to Chinese legend, a
carp swam upstream to
become a dragon.
Children’s Day
around the world.
Service Project by Punahou Students
This year Jodo Mission was fortunate in having
eight students from Punahou High School choose
Jodo Mission for their service project to the com-
munity. The four girls below (Katelyn, Jodi,
Talia and Joy) came to our Buddha Day Service
and helped by folding programs to be passed out,
passed out programs, collected money for the
offertory, took many, many photos of our Buddha
Day Program, so much so they would like to do a
blog on the internet of our Buddha Day Service.
At the time this Bulletin went to press, specifics of
this blog was not known and we will pass the in-
formation in our next Bulletin. We appreciated
their help at the Buddha Day Service and at the
same time they learned that there is a day to cele-
brate when Buddha was born. Because they
learned so much,
hopefully they will
return or tell others
about this.
Photos to the right
are Andrea and
Odilia and Harri-
son and Kieko who
came to do some
yard work.
Kieko is the granddaughter of long time
members Robert and Barbara Ashimine.

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.
Yoshinobu Yamato 90
Harry Kyoichi Kishii 89
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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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 dur-
ing the morning service. The prayers will contin-
ue each year for as long as Jodo Mission ex-
ists.
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 applica-
tion is accepted, the name will be listed on the
record.
Bishop Gensho Hara
Lahaina, Maui
Hawaii Buddhist Council’s
Memorial Day Service
Everyone is cordially invited to the
Memorial Day Service, sponsored by the
Hawaii Buddhist Council:
When: Monday, May 19
at 9:00 a.m.
Where: Punchbowl Cemetery
Hawaii Buddhist Council is made up of seven (7)
Buddhist denominations: Higashi Hongwanji
Mission of Hawaii, Honpa Hongwanji Mission of
Hawaii, Jodo Mission of Hawaii, Koyasan Shingon
Mission of Hawaii, Nichiren Mission of Hawaii,
Soto Mission of Hawaii and Tendai Mission of
Hawaii.
Hanamatsuri blog set up by
Punahou students is at
http://hanamatsuri.blogspot.com/

7. 1 Tome Iwamoto
Tome Toishigawa
2 Bishop Buntetsu Miyamoto
Etsuo Nakagawa
3 Mitsuyo Nakahara
The Fukunaga Family
Mitsuko Sakai
Carol Masako Yano
4 Eikichi Hirouji
The Miyamasu Family
Tamotsu Takaoka
Toshio Yoshioka
James M. Uesugi
5 Sadaichi Mito
The Mito Family
Michie Makino
The Makino & Okamura Family
Morita Kokubun
6 Tokusaburo Fukuda (2)
The Fukuda Family (2)
Tora Kanayama (2)
The Kanayama Family
Hitoshi Nitta
Kamato Uyehara
Tamayo Matsumori
Laurie T. Cho
Kazuo Karimoto
Kuma Tatei
Masaru Morimoto
7 Minetaro Katagiri
The Katagiri & Imamiya Family
Tsuyako Kishii
Kiyoshi Hirano
Satoru Miura
8 Toshiko Kusunoki
Tami Kawasaki
The Kusunoki Family
Tsuru Kitamura
The Kawasaki & Nakagawa Family
Yasuo Kagihara
The Kitamura Family
Seki Tamura
10 Sada Kurihara
The Kurihara Family
The Ajimura Family
The Ito Family (Stillborn)
Shinichi Takenouchi
11 Masataka Fukuda
The Fukuda Family
Shuzo Mitsutani
The Mitsutani Family
Ayataro Nanbu
The Nanbu Family
Kimiko Fujii
Kikuyo Hayashi
Kinuyo Matsui
Matsuichi Onaga
12 Konosuke Tsuda
The Tsuda Family
Kimie Takaoka
Mieko Takara
Yasu Ogi
Kenji Otani
Kikuye Okamura
13 Konzo Nakai
The Nakai Family
Hikoichi Hirai
The Hirai Family
Moushi Uehara
Teruo Sawamura
Fumiko Yogi
Kenichi Hayashi
Teruo Sawamura
The Sawamura Family
Betty Oshita
Katsutoshi Kano
14 Kiku Miyashige
The Goto Family
The Miyashige Family
Fui Yamato
The Yamato Family
Toshio Karamatsu
Kiku Matsumoto
Kura Harada
Shinichi Yanagihara
Mitsuko Takemoto
16 Kamekichi Hayashi
The Hayashi Family
Kozo Okamoto
Peggy Miyako Ogi
17 Hiromu Hayashi
Wallace Kazuyo Sakai
Helen Miyoko Fujikami Tamashiro
Hanako Thelma Ogawa
18 Hatsuyo Yamamoto
The Yamamoto Family
Tadami Uemoto
Chizuko Koto
Haru Shimizu
The Kawabe Family
The Mitsujiro Kurashige Family
Kiyoshi Narahara
Kayoko Miyamoto
Toshiko Yamanaka
19 Kamechiyo Uyehara
Fumio Fujiwara
20 Sukeo Matsuno
The Matsuno Family
Hatsue Tsuda
The Tsuda Family
Kamei Akamine
Haruyo Iwamoto
Koan Takara
Benzo Takahashi
21 Fuji Yamamoto
The Yamamoto Family
Shigeko Fujikami
The Fujikami Family
22 Tsunekichi Tamanaha
The Tamanaha Family
Masuo Tomita
Haruo Nakagawa
Howard Seishi Kobayashi
23 Hichizo Nishimura (2)
The Nishimura & Aoki Family
Harukichi Hirohama
The Hirohama Family
Ishi Onaga
The Onaga & Nakamura Family
The Nakamura Family
Tomoko Hayashi
Kenzo Hashimoto
24 Zensuke Yokomichi
The Yokomichi & Kondo Family
Kaizo Goto (2)
The Goto & Miyashige Family
Kichizo Yamamoto
The Yamamoto Family
Takeji Ogata
Kiseno Nakano
Satsuki Nakano
Kamazo Teruya
Natsu Muramoto
25 Keiichi Mineishi
The Mineishi Family
Kazuo Shidaki
The Shidaki Family
Yoshio Nishimura
Shinsuke Uchiumi
Minoru Yamane
Yonosuke Ikuta
The Takasawa Family
Jiroichi Otani
26 Senkichi Fukuda
The Fukuda Family
Fukuji Muranaka
Rikio Kunihisa
Mitsuki Kimoto
Toshiko Higa
27 Kichi Hisamura
Torakichi Miyao
Takashi Saiki
28 Iro Yamane
Misao Yasuda
Shuso Gushikuma
Shurei Gushikuma
Kamaru Gushikuma
Kama Gushikuma
29 Mayo Yamamoto
The Yamamoto & Suzukawa Family
Yazaburo Shoji
The Shoji Family
Joji Sakaguchi
Tomiko Yamanaka
Haruo Kito
The Kito Family
Hatsuko Toishigawa
Sumie Ito
30 Tamezo Yanagihara
The Yanagihara Family
Heikichi Ichida
The Ichida Family
Setsu Yamamoto
Mackay Umeichi Yanagisawa
Tsunejiro Iwamoto
Yoshiko Moritsugu
31 Hideo Kuniyuki
Ichiro Obara
Tahei Harada
EITAIKYO (Perpetual Memorial Service) for May
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