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 tovarious Shinto shrines. Mahalo to Diane Nishida for helping to greet the entourage.

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M AHALOf or you r don at ion sCurtis Alexander
Michael Ching
Bill & Keiko Doughty
Bob Harada
Jared IshimotoIzumo Taishakyo, JapanLorraine Kadota
Eiji & Yuka Kato
Kimie KoyanagiJames & Melba Kurashige
Laurie Lesley
Shigemasa Minami
Steven Miwa
Shinken & Marilyn Naitoh
Norman Odani
Guy Okada
Nicholas & Yoko Ponce
Akiko Sanai
Shuji Sekizawa
Gary & Linda Shinsato
Tracy Stevens
Akane Sugahara
Kyle & Donna Lee Tengan
Naomi Teramoto
Annette Watanabe

M ARCH
41 pm
Sak e Fest ival pr ep

53 pm
Sak e Appr eciat ion Fest ival

11 & 12 10 am - 4 pm
Hon olu lu Fest ival

Setsubun rituals include Tsuina no Gi andmame-maki. Tsuina is an exorcism rite
introduced from Tang China (618-907) todrive out demons and negative energies.
Mame-maki or bean scattering to expel
evil spirits, seems to have begun in theMuromachi Period (1392-1573).
The rituals were performed at theshrine on Sunday February 12 during ourmonthly Tsukinamisai.

APRIL
23 pm
Tsu k in am isai Ser vice

81 pm
Fest ival pr epar at ion s

93 pm
Spr in g Th an k sgivin g Fest ival

Ie-barai rituals may also be
performed when one is feelingdepressed, fearful, blocked, prior
to moving to a new residence, isuneasy in a house, or going
through major life changing events.

Hou se Blessin gMany of you have gone to a homeor business and felt a "strange"feeling. Or, maybe you decided not
to rent that apartment because ofbad "vibes".
Every home, building, piece offurniture, clothing, etc. carries theenergies of those who made theobject, who sold it, and those who
previously owned it. Their energies

A House Blessing in Hawaii Kai
on Sunday February 5.

House blessing in Kaimuki onFebruary 19.

Ie-barai promotes spiritual healing
for your residence. Welcome theenergies of prosperity andharmony and surround yourself
with peace, light and clarity.

are impregnated into the objects
and spiritual cleansing orpurification is a method ofeliminating unwanted energies.
During a house blessing, theowner, family and friends gather inthe home with Rev. Takizawa, whogoes from room to room, saying a
prayer while scattering kirinusa,
confetti made of rice paper.
Kirinusa is created to revitalize orcleanse the energy of your homeor other sacred space and anexcellent way to reclaim yourpersonal space.

Rev Takizawa and owner of a home in
Kapahulu on February 14, blessing thefour corners of the property.

Japan ese Su r n am es
In Japan, surnames were allowed
only to the aristocracy andsamurai families until the 1870s.
The Japanese have two names, asurname and a given name. No
one has a middle name.
The surname is usuallyinherited from the father, andwomen traditionally change theirsurnames to the husband's upon
marriage.
At the time of the Meiji
revolution in 1868, only 3.6% of thepopulation had legal surnames.
Merchants and artisans used thename of their business (yago) like asurname. So, they were referred
to as: Charley of Zippy?s or Robertof Macy?s. This, however was notofficial and all commoners weremandated to adopt a legal
surname in the 1870s.

Presently, there are over 100,000
surnames in use in Japan.
Commoners chose names fromtheir occupation, aristocratic orsamurai clans or geographicalfeatures around their home.
Up until the 7th century, Kabane(? ) or hereditary titles to denoterank and political standing wereused instead of surnames for thearistocracy.
There were more than thirtykabane such as Omi, Muraji, Kimi,
Miyatsuko, Fubito, Agatanushi, andSuguri. The kabane system wasabolished in 645.

or Korean immigrants thatadopted Japanese surnames thatreflected their foreign origins.
In ancient Japan, surnames
were divided into three categories- ? ? Kohbetsu, ? ? Shinbetsu and? ? Shohan.
In the Shinsen Shojiroku, there
are 335 Kohbetsu surnames, 404
Shinbestu surnames and 326
Shohan surnames.

According to the Shinsen
Shojiroku written in 815, there were1182 registered surnames in
Kyoto, Nara and Osaka.

Kohbetsu were clans that aresaid to be descended from theImperial family (i.e. Shimada,Sonobe, Matsuura, Tamba, Miyake,Mano, Kiyohara, Tachibana, Kume,Ono, Ogura, Kashima, Abe, Namba,Kusakabe, Kuwahara, Kusakabe,Waki, Abo, Asuka, Shouji, Oka, Iga,
Kubota, etc).

It is documented that over 30
percent of the registered
surnames were those of Chinese

Shinbetsu were clans that aresaid to be descended from thekami (i.e. O-nakatomi, Azumi, Suwa,

Yugeshi, Kamo, Yuasa, Hozumi,Sekiya, Sakurai, Fushimi, etc.).

Top 15 Su r n am es in JapanUn u su al Su r n am es(Approximate number of people -1. ? Oni or ogre

Shohan were clans that weredescendants of Chinese or Korean
immigrants.

as of 12/2015)

2. ? ? Sato or sugar

1 Sato??

1,894,000

3. ? ? Muteki - one without enemies

Registered in the Shinsen
Shojiroku were 163 clans from
China (i.e. Hata, Nagaoka, Takao,
Sakurada, Takeo, Ikebe, Sakurano,Koshi, Kitsu, Tani, Oishi, Hitohira,Yamashiro, Musa, Shiga, Mineta etc.).

2 Suzuki??

1,809,000

4. ? ? Somen - as in the noodles

3 Takahashi??

1,425,000

5. ? Unagi or eel

4 Tanaka??

1,346,000

6. ? ? Tokyo - as in the capital of Japan

5Ito??

1,084,000

6Watanabe ? ?

1,073,000

7. ? ? Kongyoku - literal translation"gold balls"
8. ? ? ? ? ? Saemonsaburo - origin

104 clans were from Paekche,Korea (i.e. Kudara, Akutsu, Koshi,Ishino, Kanno, Kuzui, Miyahara,Miyoshi, Fuwa, Wa, Hyakusai, etc.).

7

Yamamoto ? ?

1,060,000

8Nakamura ? ?

1,053,000

9. ? ? ? Neko Yashiki - Cat Mansion

9

Kobayashi ? ?

1,036,000

41 were from Goguryeo, Korea(Kohrai, Koma, Shirakawa, Adachi,Takakura, Idemizu, Sakai, Ohtomo,Namba etc.).
6 were from Shilla, Korea (i.e. Itoi,Nira, Toyohara, Tachibana, Shinra,Ukita, etc.) and 3 from Gaya, Korea(i.e. Shimizu, Tatara, Abe, etc).

unknown

10 Kato??

893,000

11 Yoshida??

837,000

10. ? ? ? ? Watanuki literally means
to remove cotton - cotton wasremoved from futon to prepare forwarmer weather on April 1

12 Yamada??

820,000

11. ? ? Mashika - also read as "baka"

13 Sasaki?? ?

682,000

12. ? ? ? Mitarai - can also be read as

14 Yamaguchi ? ?

649,000

15 Matsumoto ? ?

633,000

Otearai or bathroom
13. ? ? Kogoe - kanji characterstranslate as "cow dung"
14. ? ? Hanage or nasal hair

w w w.f lick r .com / k ot oh ir a-dazaif u
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 anopportunity to thank them for having been a part of our lives, to give us thestrength to accept what is past, to appreciate what is present and to lookforward to good in our future.

The annual group Kanreki Blessing at 1 pmand Yakudoshi Blessing at 2 pm were held on
Sunday, 2/12.

After a few weeks of overnightwork, a new LED sign toweremerged directly in front of theshrine on 2/16.

The shrine's omamori were featured in
the Japanese edition of the iconic
fashion magazine, VOGUE.

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Repairs by Rudy Santiago to the area below the Ewa-side stairs
were completed on January 30. Painting began as soon as thecement and epoxy dried.
Concrete work continues with repairing stairs with large
chunks of concrete broken off the edges. Re-rods were inserted,
forms were made and concrete poured in to patch the brokenedges. Railings were also re-enforced with epoxy.
Spalling and popouts caused by the corrosion of the reinforced
bars embedded in the concrete, joint deficiencies and surface
damages indicated significant distress and deterioration.
Areas identified as high priority will continue to be addressed
and repaired in the months ahead.

On Saturday, February 11, radars showed
heavy rains falling over Oahu at a rate of 2-3
inches per hour. Kalihi experienced torrential
rain and flash floods throughout the day.
The sump pump, which usually kicks induring heavy rain stopped working due tomud, rocks and sand clogging the pipe,impairing the impellor. It began working assoon as the debris was removed and thepump cleaned and tested.
MAHALO to Rudy Santigo, Sherrie Kalua,
Bryson Goda, Diane Nishida and Stacie Hata
for their kokua !!!