Hawaii Kotohira Jinsha
Hawaii Dazaifu Tenmangu

Au gu st 2017

Students, teachers and school personnel received a special blessing on Sunday, August 6 as part of ourannual Back-To-School Blessing.
Blessings seeped in ancient tradition was bestowed on participants for safety, scholastic achievement andpersonal growth this new school year.
View event news coverage at: www.e-shrine.org/inthenews.html

M AHALO f or you r don at ion s
We are grateful for the donors and volunteers without whom ourwork would not be possible. We would like to acknowledge their

M AHALO
Volu n t eer s Fr i 8/ 4 & Sat 8/ 5

special efforts and thank them for their ongoing support which isvital to our mission of preserving and perpetuating our spiritual
traditions.

Chad Enoki
Kei Enoki
Bob Harada
Arthur K. Isa

Thomas & Linda Agawa
Carp Dori
Norman & Christina Cox
Eientei Animations

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Mahalo Nui M ik e Lee for thedonation in Memory of Karen
Fujishima Lee

Clark & Gayle Fujihara
Kumiko Futatsuiwa
Bob Harada
Seizo Imamura
Shimon Kamei
Mike Lee
Steve Miwa
Warren & Karen Motosue
Shinken & Marilyn NaitohCraig & Diane Nishida
Lois Okawa
Nicholas & Yoko Ponce
Jay & Pauline Sakashita
Akiko Sanai
Gary & Linda Shinsato
Allan R. Takeshita
Nathan & Chika Tanaka
Lucy Tsu

Mike Lee
Craig NishidaDiane Nishida

Volu n t eer s Su n 8/ 6
Cassie Carlyle
Chad Enoki
Kei Enoki
Gayle Fujihara
Jeff Fujioka
Bryson Goda
Kathy Hamada Kwock

Bob Harada
Stacie Hata
Arthur K. Isa
Galen Komatsu
Kell Komatsubara

Marilyn Naitoh
Craig NishidaDiane Nishida
Pauline Sakashita
Skye Sakashita
Stirling Sakashita
Danielle Sato
Bethany Schwartz
Yukiko Shishido
Alison Swigart

View event photos at: w w w.f lick r .com / k ot oh ir a-dazaif uBaby blessing

Yakudoshi blessing

Baby blessing

Private blessing for regular visitorsfrom OsakaBaby blessing

Car blessing

Reservations for
Sh ich igosan and Ju san
M air i will be acceptedfrom September 1.
Please download areservation form andemail, fax or mail it to theshrine.
Details at: e-shrine.org or
www.jinja.us

A grand opening blessing was performedon August 9 for Car p Dor i, a restaurant
specializing in ramen and yakitori in theMcCully Shopping Center. Carp Dori is a
popular Izakaya with Carp baseball fansand has 14 restaurants within Hiroshimacity.
Restaurant grand opening blessings willclear, empower and bless the new spacewith positive energies, releasing any
residual energies to protect the business,
employees and customers.

Auwe to the person(s) that illegally
dumped 51 cans of paint in front of
the shrine on July 23.
Leftover paint is consideredhazardous and no City or State agency
was willing to dispose of the paint,
citing that it's the responsibility of theproperty owner.
Rev. Takizawa was prepared to let the51 cans of paint dry out on its own
before disposal but Mahalo Nui toRadien t Cor deir o of Cou n cilm an
Joey M an ah an's office for coordinating
immediate disposal.

Tidbit s 8-8August 8 is Father ?s Day in Taiwan
and like many other customs,traditions and beliefs in China, it all
surrounds a play on words.
In Chinese, the word for father is ?BaBa?and the number 8 is also
pronounced as ?ba?. Thus, August 8
was chosen to celebrate Father ?s Dayin Taiwan.
During the weekends prior to thisspecial day, restaurants are booked
to capacity.
Cute tuxedo cakes and round-faced
father cakes are displayed at local
bakeries. Stores have sales onelectronic gadgets and other ?manly?
items. Red envelopes containing
lucky money are presented as gifts to
Dad's all over the country.
Close family ties are the norm in
Taiwan so it is not surprising to havethree, sometimes four generations
dining together on these occasions.

In Taoism , 8 is associated withwholeness and completeness.
According to I Ching, the eight
trigrams are the foundation thatgenerates everything in the universe.
The Eight Directions represent thewhole universe in Taoist spatialconception. These eight directions
are also used to explain individual
destiny, a Chinese fortune-telling
method that depicts one's life course
according to the trigram of one's dateof birth.
The number 8 in Chinese cultureindicates prosperity and wealthbecause it sounds like the Chinese
word for ?becoming rich?.
Associating 8 with money is believed
to have originated in Cantonese
culture, especially in the businesshub of Hong Kong - and soon
became popular in other parts ofChina, as the country and its people
pursued economic development andattained material gains and profits.
Businessmen in China see number 8
as the luckiest number of all and try
to include it in the company address,
phone number or even product price,
hoping to run a profitable andsuccessfully business.
Having several of the number 8 in aphone number or a license plate cancommand sky-high prices. The
phone number 8888-8888 was soldfor US$280,000 to China?s Sichuan
Airlines at an auction a decade ago.
Another reason why the number 8
symbolizes good luck is because it isa perfect symmetrical shape. Perfectsymmetry lends itself to perfectbalance, which is considered theideal in Chinese Astrology.
Therefore, it should come as nosurprise that the Olympic games inChina started at 8:08 pm on August8, 2008.

CALENDAR
Love-A-Keiki Preschool was burglarized on
Wednesday, July 26 at approximately 4:30 am.
The burglars removed 4 jalousie panes andthe screen frame and slid through the kitchen
window.
They gained entry into the preschool throughthe kitchen counter and ransacked and stole
items in the office area, the children'sbelongings in the cubbyholes and fromrefrigerators in the kitchen.
Burglaries and criminal trespass has become
rampant in the Kapalama/Kalihi area since
the beginning of summer.

SEPTEM BER
1ACCEPTING RESERVATIONS
f or Sh ich igosan & Ju san M air i

33 pm
Tsu k in am isai & Ch oyo n o Sek k u

23 1 pm
Fest ival Pr ep
243 pm
Au t u m n Th an k sgivin g Fest ival

OCTOBER
21 10 am
Sh ich igosan Pr ep
22 9 am ~ 1 pm
Sh ich igosan & Ju san M air i
3 pm
Tsu k in am isai
28/29 9 am ~ 4 pm
Sh ich igosan & Ju san M air i

Sar ah Tan igu ch i,daughter of Jon andNaomi will be performingwith Kristi Yamaguchi atthe "Golden Moments"
show on ice on September
9 & 10 at the NBC Arena.
The show celebrates the25th anniversary ofYamaguchi?s gold-medal
victory at the 1992 WinterOlympics, while fundraisingfor early childhood literacy.
Sarah and her family are
longtime supporters of theshrine. Ganbatte Sarah !!!

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Removal anddisposal of thewooden fence
behind the shrine
was done onSaturday, July 22
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Ar t h u r Isa
M ik e Lee
Cr aig Nish ida
Gar y Sh in sat oCorrosion caused one ofthe exterior faucets tobreak off the fixture.
Plumbing repairs were done by our own
Clean-up and prep on 8/5 for the annual Back-To-School Blessing"Masa-Rooter " on Sunday, 7/30.