Special Guest Speaker for November 23, 2024 3pm Eastern – Rev. Jiko Nakade

Saturday November 23, 2024 3pm – Talk by Rev Jiko Nakade on Daifukuji temple. Use this link to sign in. If asked for a password use 272989

Born in Ohio and raised in Kona, the Rev. Jiko Nakade has been the 12th resident minister and first woman minister of the Daifukuji Soto Mission since 2004. She is a graduate of the Departments of Religion and Japanese Language at the University of Hawaii and studied at Komazawa University in Tokyo. She is the student of the Reverend Ryuji Tamiya of Niigata, Japan and a graduate of the Hawaii Soto Shu Ministers Training Program. She grew up attending Daifukuji. Her grandparents along with their 11 children ran the Oshima family grocery store located a few miles from the temple. Later, her father, his 4 brothers and their spouses operated the business. At age 19 years she spent 2 months at the Aichi Senmon Nisodo monastery of Aoyama Roshi.

Daifukuji Soto Mission (Temple of Great Happiness) est. 1914 in Kealakekua, Hi