CHUJIRO AND KIYOE HAYASHI SAIL TO HAWAII
- September 1937
.
On
Friday, 24th
September, 1937, Chujiro Hayashi and his
daughter, Kiyoe, set sail from Yokahama on the M. S.
'Chichibu Maru'.
On
Saturday, 2nd October, the ship docked in
Honolulu.
The pair would remain in Hawaii
for approximately 4 months 3 weeks, during which time they would
accompany Hawayo Takata on a lecture tour to promote the art of Reiki
Healing...
.
During the 1930's the Chichibu
Maru regularly
sailed between Hong Kong, Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama, Honolulu,
Los
Angeles and
San Francisco, and occasionally also called at Nagasaki, Hong Kong and
Manila.
Passenger Manifest of the
M.S. Chichibu Maru:
Click HERE
for large version of this document
.
Close-up of entry for the
Hayashis:
It is interesting that, under
the section for 'Calling or Occupation' Chujiro is listed as a 'Master
of
Hayashi Reiki Kenkyu'*,
and not as an M.D.
Though I feel we must not fall into the trap of reading too much into this observation.
While
some might consider this to be 'proof' that he had never been a doctor,
I would suggest that all we can properly infer here is that Chujiro Hayashi was not practicing as a doctor at this specific point in time.
Hawayo Takata & Chujiro Hayashi
Photo from the Hawaii Hochi (A Japanese-language Newspaper), November 20, 1937
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* Chujiro Hayashi had named his
own Reiki organisation 'Hayashi Reiki Kenkyu-Kai" (Hayashi Reiki
Research-Association)
