He and his wife, Tomomi, have two children. Reverend Ezaki came to the Mission in 1998. In 1976 the Mission started the Toro Nagashi ceremony, floating lanterns out to sea in remembrance of loved ones, in conjunction with the OBon service and Bon Dance, all these ceremonies familiar to many North Shore residents. In 1975 the congregation moved into a new temple. More repairs and another new school building. Incredibly, in 1957 another tsunami destroyed the school building and damaged the temple again. The women’s group and a youth group were formed. After the war, in 1946, a tsunami completely destroyed the Temple’s Japanese language school and the temple building itself was heavily damaged. The Japanese ministers were interned in “concentration camps” during World War II. Ten years later the church bought the Haleiwa Seaside Hotel using the second floor as the main altar with the minister’s residence and Japanese language school downstairs. They had emailed a history of the Mission from its origin as Haleiwa Buddhism Kyokaido (Temple) in 1903, when Reverend Muroyama rented a house in Waialua. Sheri is the Kyodan’s first female president. This week found me on the phone on a conference call with Sheri Yamauchi from the Mission’s Kyodan, or governing body, and the Mission’s spiritual leader, Reverend Ezaki. Haleiwa’s Jodo mission began as spiritual home to the North Shore’s Japanese and Chinese Buddhists working primarily at Waialua sugar plantation or in Waialua and Haleiwa Towns servicing the plantation and the iconic Haleiwa Hotel. It’s a Buddhist temple, a place of worship also housing a pre-school, women’s and youth groups, and even a pet memorial (more on that later).īuddhists make up 80 percent of the non-Christian population in Hawaii eight percent of the total population. Almost everyone one on North Shore has driven east down Haleiwa Road past Haleiwa Joe’s restaurant, past the boat harbor, past Ali’i Beach Park, and finally past a group of makai buildings just beyond the park.

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