Interview and photos by Akiko Kusunose For The North American Post Rev. Katsuya Kusunoki and the Seattle Betsuin Buddhist Temple’s 120th Anniversary Auto-translated from Japanese (Oct. 14) by the “Soy Source” website, with further editing by David Yamaguchi The North American Post The Seattle Betsuin Buddhist Temple, whose summer Bon Odori is widely known in Rev. Katsuya Kusunoki was born as the second son of a temple family in Nagasaki (western Kyushu). His parents’ temple has endured there since the early Edo Period (1603-1867).
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