Hawaii Kotohira Jinsha
Hawaii Dazaifu Tenmangu

April 2017

The annual Sake Appreciation Festival was held on Sunday, March 5 from 3:00 pm. The shrine?s Sake
Appreciation Festival was initiated to acknowledge the gift that alcoholic beverages made from rice like sakeand shochu are to the world and our lives.

M AHALO
f or you r don at ion s
Bill & Keiko Doughty
Masako Fujii
Bryson Goda
Hankyu Travel International
Bob Harada
Arthur & Becky Isa
Chinatsu Kado
James & Melba Kurashige
Milton & Kathy Kwock
Mike Lee
Steven Miwa
Takeyuki & Hanae MiyamotoRoy Morioka
Shinken & Marilyn Naitoh
Jeanette Nakata
Craig & Diane Nishida
Akiko Sanai
Masatoshi Shamoto
Gary & Linda Shinsato
Eiji Sugawara
Alice Sugimoto
Sugimoto Ohana
Masa & Irene Takizawa
Naomi Teramoto

Sak e Appr eciat ion Fest ival
Sake, a byproduct of rice haslong been a vital part of Japaneseculture.
Sake?s strongest connection
with Japanese culture lays in its
traditional indispensability atsocial gatherings, festivals,ceremonies and rituals.
Whether imbibed during

Sansankudo at a Shinto wedding
ceremony or at a festival, sakehas symbolized the miracle ofnature.
Much Mahalo to Bob Har ada
for performing the Shishimai andto Dance Master Han ayagi
M it su jyu r o (Bryson Goda) for
performing Kotobuki Sanbaso.

M AHALO
Volu n t eer s
Bryson Goda
Kathy Hamada-Kwock
Bob Harada
Arthur Isa
Kell Komatsubara
Milton Kwock
Mike Lee
Marilyn Naitoh
Shinken Naitoh
Craig NishidaDiane Nishida
Gary Shinsato
Linda Shinsato
Wayne Takenaka
Naomi Teramoto
Val Tsutsumi

Portuguese sailors andexplorers, followed by priests andmerchants, left culinary footprints
wherever they traveled over thecenturies - from Mozambique tosouthern Japan; from Southeast
Asia to Brazil; from Goa in India to
Macau in China.
Blown off course during a storm
in 1543, Portuguese traders wereshipwrecked near Tangeshimaisland off the southern coast ofKagoshima, Japan.
Intrigued by the Portuguese
firearms, the local Daimyo lordbought two guns from the sailors
and commissioned his swordsmith
to make copies. The Daimyo thenasked the Portuguese for shooting
lessons.
In 1549, Jesuit missionaries
settled in Japan. Eager for more
firearms, the Japanese warlords

welcomed trade with thePortuguese. Along with trade, thePortuguese brought Christian
missionaries and in 1549, FrancisXavier established Japan's firstmission at Kagoshima.
In 1577, Joao Rodrigues arrived inJapan at the age of 15. Born inPortugal in 1561, Joao was a cabin
boy on a Portuguese ship andbecame a Jesuit missionary in
1577. Rodgrigues was soon able
to speak Japanese fluently, whichearned him the nickname, "theinterpreter." He served as aninterpreter for both Toyotomi
Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Living in Japan for 33 years, hewrote a book considered one of
the key historical chronicles ofJapan - Historia da Igreja do Japao("This Land of Japan"). He also
wrote a book on Japanesegrammar for missionaries tomaster the Japanese language.
Missionaries and traders
arriving in the mid-16th century
brought many Western customs,
foods, European fashion andtobacco.
The most enduring legacy of thePortuguese may be the influence
they had on Japanese cuisine. They
introduced chili peppers and corn both of which originated in theAmericas, as well as the use ofbeaten eggs and sugar in cooking.
While sugar was used extensively
in Japanese cooking, it wasextremely expensive.
Sugar became more affordable
when the Portuguese brought it infor trade, and a craze for nanban
kashi sweets was born.
Three types of nanban kashi are
still very popular: Kasutera - a richsponge cake; bolo - small roundJapanese words of Portugese origin
crunchy-soft cookies andkonpeito - colorful round sugar
candies with little bumps.
The earliest example ofNanban cuisine was tempura,which was originally madewith a batter of sugar, flourand eggs and fried in lard. It
evolved into the lighter
version, fried in vegetable oilin the 17th century.
Early nanban cuisine often
used chili peppers, originallycalled nanban-karashi ornanban mustard. The namelater changed to t?garashi,(Chinese mustard) when thecountry was closed to theoutside world and China
became a stand-in foranything foreign.
The prohibition ofChristianity in the early 17thcentury brought about drasticchanges in Western cooking.

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Por t u gese En glish

These changes included
prohibitions against the eatingof beef since it was associatedwith Christianity and themaking of bread which

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Botao * *Button

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Copa

Raincoat

The residents of Nagasaki
never forgot the taste of foodbrought by the Portuguese,

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Koppu

Copo

Cup

such as sugar, pickled vinegar
dishes, f ried foods, desserts andoven-baked dishes.

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Tutanaga

Corrugated Roof

TempuraTemporaTempurasymbolized the flesh of Christ.
These were some of thereasons behind the fear ofWestern food by the Japanese.

Some of these dishes still
exist to this day, although theoriginal name and ingredients
may have been replaced withother more readily available
foods such as fish for beef.

* * The Portugese "ao" is pronounced "an", so"pao" for bread is pronounced as "pan" and"botao" for button is pronounced as "botan"

Miracles comein pairs!!

A Car Blessing was performed
on 3/28.

A Baby blessing
was performed at
the shrine on
3/12 for adorable
twins.

Car Blessings are meant toguide us with responsible
actions and shower positiveenergies of protection againstall harm to arrive safely at ourdestinations.

Here comesdouble the joy,double thelaughter anddouble thediapers.

It also gives us an opportunity
to express gratitude for the giftof our vehicles that we use forconvenience, recreation andour livelihood.

An annual House
Blessing wasperformed on 3/26
for the founding
family of Hawaii
Otaki Jinja - one of
the 7 shrines on theproperty.
The house blessing isa ceremony thatbrings positive, clear
energy into thehome.

Congratulations
to the proud
parents of alittle baby girl!!
Blessings oflove andhealthy
developmentwere bestowed
upon the baby
on 3/29.

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The shrine participated in the annual
Honolulu Festival on March 11 and
12 at the Hawaii Convention Center.
The festival is sponsored by theHonolulu Festival Foundation
promoting understanding, economic
cooperation and ethnic harmony
between the people of Hawaii and
the Pacific Rim region. This is theshrine's 10th year of participation.
Mahalo to Ar t h u r Isa andM it su n obu Oh ash i for their kokua.

A New Office blessing was held on
3/22 for Hankyu Travel International. The company wasfounded in 1948 and is based inTokyo and operates as a subsidiaryof Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Inc.
Office blessings are a way ofprotecting the new entity andthose who toil in it by starting it off
with the right energy, power andprotection for its success.

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Clean u p & Fest ival Pr ep

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11:30 am
Fest ival Pr epar at ion s

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Spr in g Th an k sgivin g Fest ival

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Hon olu lu Ren m ei M em or ialSer vice

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The shrine's Paint
Project began 2/18
with the Dazaifu
Tenmangu wing.
Mahalo to Gar y
Sh in sat o and BobHar ada fordevoting theirweekends to themaintenance andpreservation ofthe shrine.

Bob Har ada
M ar ilyn Nait oh
Sh in k en Nait oh
Cr aig Nish ida
Dian e Nish ida
Gar y Sh in sat o
Lin da Sh in sat oMahalo to Ru dy San t iago
for working on theDiamond Head side stairsof the main hall.
Concrete spalling caused by
the corrosion of the re-bars,
joint deficiencies and surface
damages will be repaired in
the coming months.

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A clean up of the shrine was performed
on 3/26 in preparation of the upcoming
Spring Thanksgiving Festival