Hawaii Kotohira Jinsha

Hawaii Dazaifu Tenmangu March 2017

The shrine welcomed 11 Priests and 6 Miko maidens from Izumo Taisha of Shimane, Japan on Saturday, February 18. This is the second of 2 groups that visited Hawaii as part of their annual educational trips to various Shinto shrines. Mahalo to Diane Nishida for helping to greet the entourage. MAHALO CALENDAR for your donat ions MARCH Curtis Alexander Michael Ching 4 1 pm Bill & Keiko Doughty Sake Fest ival prep Bob Harada Jared Ishimoto 5 3 pm Izumo Taishakyo, Japan Lorraine Kadota Sake Appreciat ion Fest ival Eiji & Yuka Kato Kimie Koyanagi 11 & 12 10 am - 4 pm James & Melba Kurashige Honolulu Fest ival Laurie Lesley Shigemasa Minami Steven Miwa Shinken & Marilyn Naitoh Norman Odani Setsubun rituals include Tsuina no Gi and APRIL mame-maki. Tsuina is an exorcism rite Guy Okada 2 3 pm Nicholas & Yoko Ponce introduced from Tang China (618-907) to Tsukinam isai Service Akiko Sanai drive out demons and negative energies. Shuji Sekizawa Mame-maki or bean scattering to expel Gary & Linda Shinsato 8 1 pm evil spirits, seems to have begun in the Tracy Stevens Fest ival preparat ions Akane Sugahara Muromachi Period (1392-1573). Kyle & Donna Lee Tengan The rituals were performed at the 9 3 pm Naomi Teramoto shrine on Sunday February 12 during our Annette Watanabe Spring Thanksgiving Fest ival monthly Tsukinamisai. Ie-barai rituals may also be House Blessing performed when one is feeling depressed, fearful, blocked, prior Many of you have gone to a home to moving to a new residence, is or business and felt a "strange" uneasy in a house, or going feeling. Or, maybe you decided not through major life changing events. to rent that apartment because of Ie-barai promotes spiritual healing bad "vibes". for your residence. Welcome the Every home, building, piece of House blessing in Kaimuki on energies of prosperity and furniture, clothing, etc. carries the February 19. harmony and surround yourself energies of those who made the with peace, light and clarity. object, who sold it, and those who are impregnated into the objects previously owned it. Their energies and spiritual cleansing or purification is a method of eliminating unwanted energies. During a house blessing, the owner, family and friends gather in the home with Rev. Takizawa, who goes from room to room, saying a prayer while scattering kirinusa, confetti made of rice paper. Kirinusa is created to revitalize or cleanse the energy of your home or other sacred space and an excellent way to reclaim your Rev Takizawa and owner of a home in A House Blessing in Hawaii Kai personal space. Kapahulu on February 14, blessing the on Sunday February 5. four corners of the property. Japanese Surnam es

In Japan, surnames were allowed Presently, there are over 100,000 or Korean immigrants that only to the aristocracy and surnames in use in Japan. adopted Japanese surnames that samurai families until the 1870s. Commoners chose names from reflected their foreign origins. their occupation, aristocratic or The Japanese have two names, a In ancient Japan, surnames samurai clans or geographical surname and a given name. No were divided into three categories features around their home. one has a middle name. - ? ? Kohbetsu, ? ? Shinbetsu and Up until the 7th century, Kabane ? ? Shohan. The surname is usually (? ) or hereditary titles to denote inherited from the father, and In the Shinsen Shojiroku, there rank and political standing were women traditionally change their are 335 Kohbetsu surnames, 404 used instead of surnames for the surnames to the husband's upon Shinbestu surnames and 326 aristocracy. marriage. Shohan surnames. There were more than thirty At the time of the Meiji Kohbetsu were clans that are kabane such as Omi, Muraji, Kimi, revolution in 1868, only 3.6% of the said to be descended from the Miyatsuko, Fubito, Agatanushi, and population had legal surnames. Imperial family (i.e. Shimada, Suguri. The kabane system was Sonobe, Matsuura, Tamba, Miyake, Merchants and artisans used the abolished in 645. Mano, Kiyohara, Tachibana, Kume, name of their business (yago) like a According to the Shinsen Ono, Ogura, Kashima, Abe, Namba, surname. So, they were referred Shojiroku written in 815, there were Kusakabe, Kuwahara, Kusakabe, to as: Charley of Zippy?s or Robert 1182 registered surnames in Waki, Abo, Asuka, Shouji, Oka, Iga, of Macy?s. This, however was not Kyoto, Nara and Osaka. Kubota, etc). official and all commoners were mandated to adopt a legal It is documented that over 30 Shinbetsu were clans that are surname in the 1870s. percent of the registered said to be descended from the surnames were those of Chinese kami (i.e. O-nakatomi, Azumi, Suwa, Yugeshi, Kamo, Yuasa, Hozumi, Top 15 Surnam es in Japan Unusual Surnam es Sekiya, Sakurai, Fushimi, etc.). (Approximate number of people - 1. ? Oni or ogre Shohan were clans that were as of 12/2015) 2. ? ? Sato or sugar descendants of Chinese or Korean immigrants. 1 Sato ? ? 1,894,000 3. ? ? Muteki - one without enemies Registered in the Shinsen 2 Suzuki ? ? 1,809,000 4. ? ? Somen - as in the noodles Shojiroku were 163 clans from 3 Takahashi ? ? 1,425,000 5. ? Unagi or eel China (i.e. Hata, Nagaoka, Takao, 4 Tanaka ? ? 1,346,000 6. ? ? Tokyo - as in the capital of Japan Sakurada, Takeo, Ikebe, Sakurano, 7. ? ? Kongyoku - literal translation Koshi, Kitsu, Tani, Oishi, Hitohira, 5 Ito ? ? 1,084,000 "gold balls" Yamashiro, Musa, Shiga, Mineta etc.). 6 Watanabe ? ? 1,073,000 8. ? ? ? ? ? Saemonsaburo - origin 104 clans were from Paekche, 7 Yamamoto ? ? 1,060,000 unknown Korea (i.e. Kudara, Akutsu, Koshi, 8 Nakamura ? ? 1,053,000 9. ? ? ? Neko Yashiki - Cat Mansion Ishino, Kanno, Kuzui, Miyahara, 9 Kobayashi ? ? 1,036,000 10. ? ? ? ? Watanuki literally means Miyoshi, Fuwa, Wa, Hyakusai, etc.). to remove cotton - cotton was 10 Kato ? ? 893,000 41 were from Goguryeo, Korea removed from futon to prepare for warmer weather on April 1 (Kohrai, Koma, Shirakawa, Adachi, 11 Yoshida ? ? 837,000 Takakura, Idemizu, Sakai, Ohtomo, 12 Yamada ? ? 820,000 11. ? ? Mashika - also read as "baka" Namba etc.). 13 Sasaki ? ? ? 682,000 12. ? ? ? Mitarai - can also be read as Otearai or bathroom 6 were from Shilla, Korea (i.e. Itoi, 14 Yamaguchi ? ? 649,000 Nira, Toyohara, Tachibana, Shinra, 13. ? ? Kogoe - kanji characters Ukita, etc.) and 3 from Gaya, Korea 15 Matsumoto ? ? 633,000 translate as "cow dung" (i.e. Shimizu, Tatara, Abe, etc). 14. ? ? Hanage or nasal hair w w w.flickr.com / kot ohira-dazaifu

The 9th Memorial Service for Karen Fujishima Lee (Hanayagi Mitsuaki II) was held on February 8. Every opportunity to gather in remembrance of the deceased is an opportunity to thank them for having been a part of our lives, to give us the strength to accept what is past, to appreciate what is present and to look forward to good in our future.

After a few weeks of overnight The annual group Kanreki Blessing at 1 pm work, a new LED sign tower The shrine's omamori were featured in and Yakudoshi Blessing at 2 pm were held on emerged directly in front of the the Japanese edition of the iconic Sunday, 2/12. shrine on 2/16. fashion magazine, VOGUE. Maint enance

Repairs by Rudy Santiago to the area below the Ewa-side stairs On Saturday, February 11, radars showed were completed on January 30. Painting began as soon as the heavy rains falling over Oahu at a rate of 2-3 cement and epoxy dried. inches per hour. Kalihi experienced torrential rain and flash floods throughout the day. Concrete work continues with repairing stairs with large chunks of concrete broken off the edges. Re-rods were inserted, The sump pump, which usually kicks in forms were made and concrete poured in to patch the broken during heavy rain stopped working due to edges. Railings were also re-enforced with epoxy. mud, rocks and sand clogging the pipe, impairing the impellor. It began working as Spalling and popouts caused by the corrosion of the reinforced soon as the debris was removed and the bars embedded in the concrete, joint deficiencies and surface pump cleaned and tested. damages indicated significant distress and deterioration. MAHALO to Rudy Santigo, Sherrie Kalua, Areas identified as high priority will continue to be addressed Bryson Goda, Diane Nishida and Stacie Hata and repaired in the months ahead. for their kokua !!!