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July 2015a place where ancient traditions thrive

A Jichinsai or ground breaking ceremony was performed at a property in Kailua on June 28, 2015

Jichin-sai Groundbreaking Ceremony

Here in Hawaii, a A ho`omaika`i i
ke kahua groundbreaking blessing is
There are many rites performed
The norito prayer asks the spirits
also performed before beginning ain the course of building a home inof the land to invite the energies ofconstruction project.
Donecipsumerasuteuismod
anteorciluctusetquamJapan.
Nature to plant the seeds of good
The ceremony includes a pi kai
Jichin-sai, also read tokoshizume
fortune and good health.
ritual sprinkling of water with anno matsuri is usually performed atIt announces to the spirits of theaccompanying pule invoking thethe beginning of architecturalland that this ceremony marks theDivine Source Ke Akua, the auprojects to prepare the land for use,change in ownership of the land andmakua ancestral deities and na kia`ito clear out negative energies and tomay any unwanted legacies andspiritual guardians of the land.
bless or consecrate the land. It is anegative energies be removed.
In any culture, rituals such as theway to honor the dreams andThe site is then symbolically
Jichin-sai affords us a sense of
intentions for the owner(s) of thepurified by scattering purification
belonging and gives us a way tohome.
confetti, consecrated rice, salt andconnect to the aina.
The ceremony itself begins with a sake to the four corners of the site.
Rituals tie us to our ancestors andrite asking the kami to descend.
Although rituals are the language
to our heritage and helps us toShinsen, or offerings are made toof the sacred, Jichin-sai ceremonies
understand where we came from.
the kami and the priest recites a
are now more cultural than religious
As a bridge between past andnorito prayer written exclusively forand forms an essential aspect of thefuture, rituals strengthen our own
the owner(s).
construction phase in Japan.
identity.

MAHALO for your generous donations
Thomas & Linda Agawa
Mary Carias
Doughty Ohana
James Fujino Ohana
Fukuoka Lions ClubManabu & Mitsuki Goto
Bob Harada
Eileen Harada
Jeffrey & Maki Hornung
Kyoko Isa

Rev & Mrs Manabu Goto of Hakozaki Jinja, Fukuoka
visited the shrine on 6/14/15 while on their honey-moon.
Rev Goto is the son of Rev Satoshi Goto of Dazaifu
Tenmangu Fukuoka and lived here, at the Hawaii shrinefor six months in 1991.

Mahalo to Mike Lee, Bob Harada andVal Tsutsumi for readjusting the security
cameras on 6/14/2015

Yoshiko Ishida
Mike Lee
Shinken & Marilyn Naitoh
Craig & Diane Nishida
In Memory of Mitsuko Pearson

Rev Takizawa bids farewell toMitsuko Pearson, a longtime
friend of the shrine after
performing her burial atPunchbowl on 6/25/15.

Congratulations to James & Sachi Fujino
on the birth of their son, Max. Max isthe great grandson of the 6th priest ofthe shrine, Rev Shigeo Fujino.

Bishnu & Yuka Ramsarran
Akiko Sanai
Danielle Sato
Allan Takeshita
Dale Yamamoto

Tiara, the French poodle wasbrought for a private
blessing on 6/13/2015

Mahalo Mike Lee, Bob Harada and Val
Tsutsumi for helping the shrine go green
with LED lights.

Tsunetaro Harada - The Land Vice AdmiralTsunetaro Harada was born in Ogimachi, Saga-ken on August 12, 1870
and immigrated to Hawaii in 1899.
Harada arrived as a contract worker
for Hilo Plantation. He later moved toEwa Plantation but eventually left toembark on his own construction
business - Harada Sanko Sha.
Harada was known as the “Riku noChujo” or Land Vice Admiral by theJapanese community because helavishly entertained and cared for theJapanese Imperial Navy training shipsthat came to Hawaii.
Harada’s major projects included:* Japanese Consulate building at thecorner of Nuuanu and Kuakini* Territorial Hospital in Kaneohe (laterknown as the Kaneohe StateHospital)* Hawaii Jodo-shu Temple in Makiki

who was assigned to Pearl Harborin the summer of 1931.
Thalia and Thomas Massie
attend a "Navy Night" Saturday
dance with two other couples on
September 12, 1931 at Harada’s
Ala Wai Inn.
Thalia is bored and leaves theparty without Thomas sometime
before midnight.
Just before 1 am, Thalia stops a caron Ala Moana Boulevard. She has abroken jaw and scuffed cheeks. She
refuses offers to be taken to a hospitaland is driven home.
Although she first claims to havebeen assaulted, she later tells police
she was gang-raped by 4 or 5Hawaiians.
Police arrest five suspects - Joseph
Kahahawai, Ben Ahakuelo, Horace

Photo of Ala Wai Inn, formerly known as the Fuji Tea House taken in 1930

In 1930, Tsunetaro purchased theAla Wai Inn, at the edge of Waikiki.
On the night of September 12, 1931,
an incident occurred at the Ala Wai Innthat changed Harada and the local
community forever.
Grace and "Roly" Fortescue (Rolywas the illegitimate son of Teddy
Roosevelt's uncle) gives birth to theirfirst child, Thalia. Grace was the nieceof Alexander Graham Bell.
Thalia marries Thomas Massie,

Ida, Henry Chang and David Takai all young local males from the KalihiPalama area.
On October 17, 1931, the fivealleged rapists plead not guilty.
The rape trial, titled Territory ofHawaii v. Ben Ahakuelo et al., begins
in mid-November.
At the urging of Princess
Kawananakoa, William Heen, theonly Democrat in the senate, agrees torepresent the five young men with his

co-counsel, William Pittman.
They are certain the five men areinnocent.
On December 6, 1931 jury
deliberations in the trial ends and a
mistrial is declared.
Thalia’s mother Grace, who
had been in Hawaii since early
October conjure up a plan with
Thomas Massie to kidnap one of
the five men to extract a
confession.
On January 8, 1932, Grace,
Thomas Massie, and two enlistedmen, Deacon Jones and Edward
Lord kidnap Joe Kahahawai.
Around 8 am, Kahahawai istaken to Grace's home and isquestioned, shot and killed.
Kahahawai's naked body is
stuffed in a Buick but is spotted bypolice near Halona Blowhole.
Police arrest Grace, ThomasMassie, and Edward Lord.
Deacon Jones is later found at themurder scene.
The prisoners are confined inluxurious surroundings aboard aa ship docked at Pearl Harbor.
Congress holds hearings toaddress a possible racial riot inHawaii.
On January 21, 1932, a grandjury convenes and returns anindictment for second degree
murder against Grace Fortescue,
Thomas Massie, Edward Lord andDeacon Jones.
At the arraignment, Judge
Christy sets bail for eachdefendant at $50,000 but
eventually lowers bail and allows

Grace, Thalia and Thomas Massie

the defendants to remain lodged inNavy quarters.
Clarence Darrow, 74 years oldand retired, agrees to represent themurder defendants.
On April 4, 1932, Jury selection
begins in the Kahahawai murder
trial. The presiding judge is Charles
Davis and the prosecution is lead byJohn Kelley. A jury of seven
whites, three Chinese, and two
Hawaiians is selected.
Darrow waives his opening
statement and calls his first witness,
Thomas Massie, making it apparent
that he is planning a temporary
insanity defense.
On April 15, 1932, Darrow is toohung over to attend court and theday's session is canceled.
On April 27, 1932, Clarence
Darrow delivers the last closing

argument which is aired live on
radio stations across the country.
Jury deliberations begin.
On April 29, 1932, the jury finds
the defendants guilty of manslaughter.
Judge Davis sentences thedefendants to 10 years in prison, but
Governor Judd commutes thesentence to one hour in the custodyof the sheriff.
The defendants spend the nightcelebrating their freedom at a
Chinese restaurant.
Less than a year after the Ala
Wai incident, Grace Fortescue,
Thomas and Thalia Massie, andClarence and Ruby Darrow board
an ocean liner for San Francisco.
On October 23, 1932, a 273-page
report from the Pinkerton Detective
Agency is presented to Governor
Judd which concludes that Thalia
Massie was not raped.
On February13, 1933, Prosecutor
Kelley drops all rape charges
against the five men initiallycharged in the Thalia Massie case.
On February 23, 1934, Thalia
Massie files for divorce in Reno andon July 2, 1963 dies in Palm Beachfrom an overdose of barbiturates.
In a book Something Terrible
Has Happened published in 1966
by a writer for LOOK magazine,
Deacon Jones admits that Joe
Kahahawai never confessed tohaving raped Massie after his

Photo of Tsunetaro in a Shinto ceremony - Date and event unknown

abduction.
Jones also admits that he shot“the black bastard" because he "hadno use for him."
The Ala Wai Inn incident caused
Harada to forsake the restaurant
business and enter the hotelindustry.
By this time, Harada was a
successful businessman and wasable to send three of his six children
to be educated in Japan, a practicemany affluent Isseis did toperpetuate the Japanese language
and culture.

Tsunetaro and Kinu Harada

The eldest son, Raymond Kosaku
graduated from McKinley HighSchool and received a BA fromMeiji University in Tokyo. Upon
return to Hawaii, he foundemployment with Sumitomo Bankand was drafted into the US Armyin 1951.
Harada’s eldest daughter Gladys
Chiyoko graduated from UH andobtained a BS from Meiji
University.
The second son, Benjamin Kenji
graduated from Aoyama Gakuin
University in Tokyo, served in theUS military and worked for PanAm
Airlines.
Harada’s wife Kinu was fromKuga-machi, Oshima-gun,Yamaguchi-ken, She was said to bea tender hearted individual that
supported her husband well.

Harada purchased the Palama
Kyushu-ya Hotel located at 884 N.
King Street, at the corner of N. King
Street and Austin Lane.
In 1937, Harada purchased a
residence in Makiki and converted it
into the Pensacola Hotel.
The hotel, located on Pensacola
between Hassinger and Davenport
Streets, was a popular lodging until
December 7, 1941.
Harada, with his close ties toJapanese consulate officials wasinterrogated and interned at Angel
Island, Camp McCoy - Wisconsin,
Camp Livingston - Louisiana andCamp Santa Fe - New Mexico.
After the war, Harada engaged invarious businesses in Kyushu andHawaii.
In 1956, Harada flew to Japan tovisit his son Raymond and his family
and died suddenly onboard a Japan

Tsunetaro Harada pictured with Shunichi Nekomoto, Shinichi Koshi and members ofthe Japanese Contractors Association. Harada is in the 2nd row, 3rd from the left

Airlines flight from Fukuoka toHaneda on October 30, 1956.
Tsunetaro Harada’s goal in life
was not one of fame and glory, butrather a desire for public service.
His life, which was full ofvicissitudes, is one that is shared bymany Japanese immigrants who lived
and contributed greatly to thedevelopment of Hawaii.
Tsunetaro Harada is shrine Vice
President Bob Harada’s paternal
grandfather.

Lions International Convention
The shrine assisted the Fukuoka Lions Club in promoting the Lions Convention in Fukuoka next year, to the many
Lions attending last week’s International Convention in Waikiki.
We were able to share the classical performing arts of Japan through the dances of Hanayagi Dancing Academy HF
and the shrine’s Shishimai to an attentive audience of over 370 Lions and Lionesses from around the globe on June29, at the Hawaii Convention Center. Mahalo to shrine Directors Bob Harada, Diane Nishida, Bryson Goda andHanayagi Mitsuakemi and Cassie Carlyle.

From left: Ryoko Kamada of JTB Fukuoka, Bob Harada (Shishimai), Cassandra Carlyle, Hanayagi Mitsuakemi (StacieHata), Shihan Dance Master Hanayagi Mitsujyuro (Bryson Goda) and Hanayagi Mitsutamae (Diane Nishida)

Congratulations

Welcome to the World, Kaylie Mia
Choy! Kaylie was born 6/29 andis the daughter of shrine volunteer
Emi Choy

Congratulations to shrine volunteer
Alexandria Carlyle on her recent graduation from Oregon State University.
We couldn’t be prouder !!

Happy Birthday to shrine President
Shinken Naitoh and Rev. Takizawa

Tanabata
The Tanabata festival wasimported from China to Japan morethan 2000 years ago. It began as a
festival called Kikkoden which wascombined with Japanese traditions tobecome an official event at theImperial court.
Mahalo Allan Takeshita for
cutting bamboo branches for Tanabata,observed at the shrine on Sunday, July5.

2015 Events

Congratulations to Aiden Quezon on his
graduation from Love A Keiki Preschool.
Aiden is the grandson of shrine volunteerSherrie Kalua.

AUGUSTSEPTEMBEROCTOBER

2 Sunday
10:00 am - 2:00 pm

6 Sunday3:00 pm

18 Sunday
3:00 pm

Back-To-School Blessing

Tsukinamisai Monthly Service

Tsukinamisai Monthly Service

23 Sunday
10:00 am - 4:00 pm

20 Sunday
8:00 am - 2:00 pm

18 Sunday
24 Saturday
25 Sunday
31 Sunday
9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Otaku Summer Festival

Hanayagi DAHF Garage Sale

27 Sunday
3:00 pm
Autumn Taisai Festival

Shichigosan
Jusan Mairi