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Hawaii Shingon Mission or Shingon Shu Hawaii (Japanese: 真言宗ハワイ別院, Shingonshu Hawai Betsuin, formerly the Shingon Sect Mission of Hawaii) located at 915 Sheridan Street in Honolulu, Hawaii, is one of the most elaborate displays of Japanese Buddhist temple architecture in Hawaiʻi.
Architect Louis Davis designed it in a Spanish Mission Revival style that matches very well that of the newly built city hall, Honolulu Hale (1929). [11] (Davis had designed the ornately Chinese New Palama Theatre two years earlier. It was leased in the 1970s to show Filipino films and renamed Zamboanga Theatre. [12]) Building materials include ...
Hsu Yun Temple [1] [2] is claimed to be [3] Hawaii's (possibly the western world's [4]) very first Chinese Buddhist Hall.There is also putative claim that it was, on construction, the largest Chinese Temple in the history of the Americas (6,000 sq ft).
"Daifukuji Soto Mission". official web site "Daifukuji, Soto Mission". Soto Zen International web site "Daifukuji Soto Mission in Kona, Hawai'i". SotoZen-Net web site. Archived from the original on May 3, 2010 "101歳の看板娘～ハワイ日系移民の営み: テレビ東京"
In 1922, a few years after attending the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, Rev. Hosen Isobe established the Zenshuji Soto Mission [3] in a Los Angeles apartment. Anti-immigration laws at that time made it extremely difficult for people of Japanese descent to purchase land in the United States.
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On February 14, 1886, Taro Ando, a gannenmono who had become Japan's first consul general in the Kingdom of Hawaii, purchased land from Judge M.A. Austin; Ando opened the Japanese consulate on the parcel at the intersection of Nuuanu Street and Kuakini Street; the facility included the residence and the business office. [3]
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