Hawaii Kotohira Jinsha - Hawaii Dazaifu Tenmangu
SEPTEM BER 2020

Th e Sfor shrine VP Diane Nishida on August 21
Car Blessing was performed

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Visit ou r w ebsit e: w w w.jin ja.u sGok it o Pr ivat e Blessin gs
The 100th Anniversary Festival for Hawaii Kotohira
Jinsha will be held on September 27.
The shrine has been closely monitoring the pandemicand although the 100th Anniversary is an incredibly
important event for us, we have made the difficult
decision to observe the festival without the presenceof guests.

Private Blessings were performed fortwo sisters on August 22

Happy Yakudoshi
Birthday!

As the situation continues to change rapidly our top
priority remains the health, safety and well-being of
our community while ensuring the continuity of ourspiritual mission.

Originally from Japan and traditionally nature based, Haiku are poems
that can bring out subtle but deep insights in a few words.
For years, shrine friend and Haikuist, Bill Doughty, has discovered
unintentional Haiku in printed public words. A few years ago, Bill
"found" Haiku from original papers collected in "The Complete worksof Abraham Lincoln."
Bill has recently compiled a book of Haiku from the words of President
Donald Trump which is available on Amazon Kindle: "Haiku of Trump:
The Chasm, Schism and Isms of Donald J. Trump"Joh n Wayn e at t h e Sh r in e
John Wayne (5/26/1907 6/11/1979) born Marion RobertMorrison was an iconic American
actor and among the top box
office draws for three decades.
Wayne lost a football scholarshipto the University of Southern
California as a result of a bodysurfing accident and began
working for Fox Films. His big
break came in 1939 as Ringo Kid inStagecoach.

"Big Jim McLain" is a 1952 politicalthriller starring John Wayne andJames Arness (Marshall Matt Dillon
on Gunsmoke) as House UnAmerican Activities Committee
investigators (HUAC) hunting down
communists in pre-StatehoodHawaii.

their respects to the fallen soldiers
on a temporary staging built over
the top side of the fire control
platform of the USS Arizona.

The two investigators pursue thesuspect all over Oahu andMolokai. There is rare footage of
Pearl Harbor before the Arizona
Memorial was built.
Pearl Harbor marks the resting
place of 1,177 officers andcrewmen killed on the USS Arizonaduring the Pearl Harbor attack on
December 7, 1941.

John Wayne at the shrine with theOlomea Street main torii in the backThe present memorial was built in
1962, ten years after this moviewas filmed. John Wayne andJames Arness can be seen paying

John Wayne and James Arness standing on atemporary platform over the USS Arizona

Hawaii Kotohira Jinsha appears
about 35 minutes into the movie,
when John Wayne and JamesArness visits the shrine to ask Rev.
Ito (Rev. Kinai Ikuma) about Willie
Nomaka, a missing Communist
party member.

and founder of the Japan-America
Society of Hawaii), Akira Fukunaga(founding member of the HJJCC
Cherry Blossom festival) andReverend Kinai Ikuma.

The shrine in 1952 as seen in the movie

John Wayne and James Arness walking outfrom the shrine

Several of the people cast in thefilm were actual Honolulu citizens:
Honolulu Police Chief Dan Liu
played himself, "Red" McQueen(Star athlete at Punahou andHonolulu Star Bulletin reporter),
Kinko Lucky Simunovich (juniorheavyweight champion wrestler),
Joel Trapido (founded the UH
Manoa Department of Drama andTheater), Sammy Steamboat
Mokuaki (champion with the 50th
State Big Time Wrestlingorganization), Ralph Honda (thenpresident of Kuakini Hospital,
founding member of the Prince
Akihito Scholarship Foundation

Daniel Siu Chong Liu, the son ofChinese immigrants was thelongest serving Chief of Police inthe Honolulu Police Department
who worked his way up from clerk
to Captain before being appointed
to the Chief of Police in 1948.

HPD Police Chief Dan Liu and John Waynein the movieHe established the Police Athletics
League (PAL), created many crime
prevention programs, improved
working conditions and benefits
and began the chaplaincy corps
and canine corps.
Liu retired from the Honolulu
Police Department in 1969 to serveas special assistant forinternational affairs with U.S.
Postmaster General Winton Blountin Washington D.C.

Rev. Kinai Ikuma as Rev. Ito in themovie

The shrine's Chief Priest Misao
Isobe was deported to Japan in1943 and returned in late 1952 tocontinue serving at Hawaii
Kotohira Jinsha.
The movie premiered at the Kuhio
Theatre on August 28, 1952.
This photo taken from the movie shows theold martial arts Renbujo and the Kyudo
archery dojo in the area that is now Olomea
Street and H-1.

There are no records of Rev. Ikuma
as having served at Hawaii
Kotohira Jinsha. He was born in1872 in Japan and was widowed afew years before the filming of themovie. He was an ordained priest
and assisted many shrines byofficiating at festivals during thewar years and was cast in "Big Jim
McLain" during Rev. Misao Isobe'sabsence.

See a short clip of the movie on
our website under Event Videos or
the full movie on YouTube at:w w w.you t u be.com / w at ch ?v=F_oJ1KBl__g

Pictured from the left: John Wayne, Rev.
Kinai Ikuma, James Arness

M ain t en an ce
Graffiti, especially tagging
is the visual manifestation of gang presence
and is removed
immediately by Rev.
Takizawa. Gangs usuallytag their crew name ormoniker to define
territory.

Lowering costs by recycling
soil from old pots. Soil mustfirst be bagged and left in thesun for a few days to remove
pathogens and potential
disease. Then its revitalizedwith nutrients before use.

Theft is a problem for all
retailers and alcohol is one of
the most targeted products.
Many stores place a black
security cap on liquor bottles
to deter and reduce theft.
Since early September, Rev.
Takizawa has been picking up
5 - 6 security bottle caps per
day on Olomea Street,presumably left by thieves who
have shoplifted liquor.

Mahalo to the Kurashiges for the crowns of the original Maui
Gold pineapples called PRI 73-50 originated at UH Manoa in
1973. The present Maui Gold is a hybrid strain of PRI 73-50.
The shrine also received soy bean seeds which were first
germinated and planted in pots. Above is a photo of the soybeans at one week. Soy is documented as being grown in Chinaas early as 11,000 BCE.