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'Hawayo Hirumi Takata' Born (December 24,1900 – December 11,1980 ).Hawayo Kawamura married in 1917 became Mrs Hawayo H Takata (高田ハワヨ) in Japanese Katakana. Hawayo was a second generation Japanese-American,That is one born of indigenous Japanese Parents. Hawayo was born on a sugar cane plantation where her father Sachi Takata was employed as a book keeper. This plantation was located in Hanamaulu,,Kauai County,Territory of Hawaii. Hawayo introduced Reiki the to the world. Reiki is a hands on healing method,"The Usui System of Natural Healing" or Usui Shiki Ryoho. Which over time,was better know through out the entire world by its more simple common name,"Reiki". Reiki In Japanese kanji,( 靈氣 ). Mrs Takata is famous for bringing 'Reiki' to the Western countries in 1937. Many books have been written on reiki because of Mrs Takata's life long commitment to the Japanese Hands on Healing Art called Reiki[.^[1]

What is Reiki

[[ Reiki is a natural healing art that was developed in Japan around the years of 1890 to 1925.It is generally believed that a man,who was known by the name of 'Mikao Usui Sensei' was the original founder of Reiki in Japan ^[2] The word 'Sensei,' . Usui Sensei passed on his 'reiki healing art', with all its core teachings, to his elected successor,Chujiro Hayashi,before Usui Sensei's death, in around 1926 . There is a direct linage of Usui's teachers in the Reiki Healing art. This Reiki teaching linage was passed on by Mikao Usui's to his elected successor, Mr Chujiro Hayashi, in around the year 1922 (Taisho era ) Japan ^[3] This passing on of the Usui linage was accounted for and according to Mrs Hawayo Takata's reiki history story. This story is, as it was told to her in 1936, by her teacher, Mr Chujiro Hayashi. Mrs.Takata was fluent in both the language and culture of Japan and the United States. Mrs.Takata spent many years of her life travelling backwards and forwards from Hawaii to Japan, visiting her family in a village, Kyoto prefecture known as Yamagauchi [ ^[4]. This double exposure to Japanese cultures,developed in Hawayo Takata,which made her well-suited for what was to become her life long commitment as "Reiki Master". Hawayo Takata was nominated as Principle' reiki master',or as Reiki Grand Master'.This was a position which Mrs Takata inherited directly from Chujiro Hayashi in 1940.^[5] The Hayashi family, Hayashi's 'Reiki associate's or association, bestowed this honour upon Hawayo Takata when in Atami city, Shizuoka, on May 11,1940 . ^[6], Both Chujiro Hayashi and Hawayo Takata endured great risk to preserve this secret Japanese healing art, during the critical events of WW11. Takata gave some 40 years of her life in her personal contributions in the preservation of the entire core teaching of reiki, as personally taught to her by Chujiro Hayashi in 1936 to1938. While Takata both taught reiki classes and treated thousands of personal reiki clients,between1936 and 1980, for which Takata is widely acknowledged for today. Takata is also acknowledged by millions of reiki practitioners,through out the world. Takata had simplistic way of teaching with ease the Japanese Reiki art. Today Takata's teaching remains the key source of great inspiration for many other Reiki Master Teachers in the greater Reiki community. It's with great gratitude to Mrs. Takata, for all her efforts to preserve and maintain the original core reiki teachings and practice,in its pure,Japanese, original form. .That same simple reiki teaching as taught by Mikao Usui 臼井甕男," taught to his student Chujiro Hayashi in around 1920.There was no mention of other teachers names existing, other than Mr Hayashi.Though nowadays there are many pseudo reiki teachers, who have claimed other names since 1986. Sadly,however, evidence has shown that, most of these newer teachers did not receive the same core teachings,if at all,of the same reiki teaching,as that taught by Hayashi to Takata.It may questioned if these same pseudo reiki teachers,were actually taught by one of Mrs. Takata's, original reiki masters. Mrs Takata personally initiated some of her suitable students as reiki masters during her time,during the mid 1938 to 1980. Though she never taught a reiki Master on a week end seminar like today. These master initiations by Takata were always a personal and very private teaching session,kept personal between Hawayo Takata and her reiki master student, usually over a few weeks. ^[7] ]]

' Early Life of 'Hawayo Takata Hawayo H Kawamura ( Takata ) was the daughter of Japanese-born indigenous parents . Making Hawayo Takata a second generation of Japanese American.Hawayo grew up on the Hawaiian Island of Kauai, where her father worked on the sugar cane plantation. She finished formal school at age 12 years.Because Hawayo was a very small, frail girl for age of 12 years.Therefore young Hawayo was most unsuitable for the heavy work in the cane fields. A series of events happened in the village,that was to change the course of Hawayo's life. There was a new store, that had just opened locally. On the day the store opened, Hawayo just naturally began to help the owner out on his new stores opening day, as he was overloaded with customers.Afterwards, the store owner offered Hawayo her first real important Job, and so she went to work in the local store on the plantation.Hawayo attended Japanese school after work as she lived in the boarding school. Later on young Hawayo was invited by the owner of a very large plantation to spend her vacation, where she was eventually given a new job in their great Mansion.Over time Hawayo was given increased duties as she grew older snd stronger and was eventually was put in charge of the other staff in the mansion. At this point, Takata was also able to maintain her Japanese education because of her new position. It most likely at this plantation Mansion was the same place where HawayoTakata met the Heiress Doris Duke 14.They were to form a solid friendship that lasted more than 24 years. On 10 March 1917,Hawayo H Kawamura, Takata, married Saichi Takata, the bookkeeper of the plantation where they were both employed. They had two daughters together.The first child was born in 1919, her name was Julia Sayoko Takata. The second daughter was born in 1924, her name was Alice Emiko Takata. Alice later was to married to a Dr Michael Furumoto in Dallas Texas. Alice Furumoto was the mother of the current Reiki Grand Master, Phyllis Lei Furumoto. In reiki early reiki circles Mrs Hawayo Takata became affectionately known as "Takata". The Takata's,both Hawayo and her husband Saichi, who had just returned from a long trip back to Japan in 1929. This was when Takata's husband Saichi died, at age thirty-four in Hawaii 1930. Sachi Takata also served in the US army in WW1. Following which he served his local community,looking after war veterans and organising functions in his spare time.He was a very well respected man in their community. Before his death or transition as he called it, he asked his wife Hawayo not to bury him in a grave in Hawaii, but to take his ashes back to Japan. Takata did this on her return trip in 1935. Saichi was from a Japanese Christian family. After this great loss, Takata worked hard to support her young family on her own, this contributed to her suffering from, a variety of serious gastrointestinal ailments.All Takata's hard work, little sleep, eventually lead to Takata's nervous breakdown. ' Takata's Introduction To Reiki ' Takata's introduction to Reiki was due to a medical crisis, with a sequence of events, soon after her breakdown. In 1935, Takata journeyed back to Japan, via steamship, with her two young daughters,Julia and Alice Takata, for a dual-purpose. Firstly to attend to the ashes of he late husband Saichi Takata. Secondly the get her own health back in order. When she arrived in Japan she was sent a message to say one of her sisters had also died.So it was her duty to break this news to her Parents who were also in Japan at this time. Takata's health was very poor so she decided to go to Tokyo to seek medical care. After visiting her parents, she went to the private hospital in Asakusa,Tokyo,where she was diagnosed with potential life-threatening conditions,which allegedly included gallstones, appendicitis and a possible tumor. She was given some weeks to recuperate from poor lung health before being admitted for surgery for her other gastrointestinal problems. While resting on the operating table, just before the surgery was to begin, Hawayo heard a voice. The voice said to her,"The operation is not necessary. 'The operation is not necessary." She had never heard a voice speak to her like this before. She wondered what it meant. The voice repeated the message a third time even louder. She knew she was wide awake and had not imagined the voice. It was so unusual, yet so compelling that she decided to ask the doctor. She got off the operating table, wrapped a sheet around herself and asked to speak to the doctor. Takata began her hand healing energy treatment called Reiki under Mr Chujiro Hayashi's care Mrs.Takata received daily treatments over a year or so and became progressively better. Impressed with the results, Takata wanted to learn Reiki. However, it was explained that Reiki was a 'secret teaching' and not for out siders. Mrs. Takata talked to the surgeon at the hospital and convinced him to ask Dr. Hayashi to allow her to learn Reiki. Mr. Hayashi wanted to teach Reiki to another woman besides his wife, and since Mrs. Takata was so persistent, he decided that she should be the one.Takata described all the other reiki practitioner's asmalein Hayashi's reiki clinic. In the Spring of 1936, Mrs. Takata received First Degree Reiki. Under the personal instruction of Chujiro Hayashi, while living with his family in Tokyo in 1936-1937. She worked with Mr. Hayashi's personal supervision and instruction,for one year.[^[8] Then Takata received her Initiation to 'Okuden', 2nd degree Reiki. .The term Master was a general term used in Japan for many decades. It was not a term created by Hawayo Takata.The term' Master' was first used by the Japanese people to address their oyatoi gaikokujin( 御雇ひ外國人),foreign teachers or advisors Meiji era. . Hayashi actually gave his vocation as 'Reiki Master,Spiritual Healer' aboard the Steam ship MS "ChiChiBu Maru"passenger list, when arriving in Honolulu in 1937.

In July 1937, Takata returned to Hawaii in good health.Just two months before Hayashi was to follow on.Takata, now aged 37 years,began to organise a huge tour for Chujiro Hayashi's around the Islands of Hawaii. Making bookings in halls and writing news paper announcements and so on... She also began promoting herself as a reiki practitioner which she was soon to become a very successful Reiki practice. Two months after Takata's return to Hawaii in 1937, Mr Hayashi, aged 56 yrs, followed accompanied by his daughter Ms. Kiyoe Hayashi, aged 26 yrs. Hayashi came to Hawaii to spend six months with Hawayo Takata . The Hayashi's arrived in Honolulu on September 24 1937, aboard the Steam ship MS "ChiChiBu Maru". Chujiro Hayashi listed himself as a "Master of Hayashi Reiki Ken-kyu 'Japanese spiritual healer ". When the Hayashi's visited Hawaii, they stayed with Takata for the entire six months and went on a tour with Takata to 'promote his Reiki art of the Usui Shiki Ryoho..In 1938,Takata became thirteenth fully qualified as master of the profession. ^[9]Takata was the first reiki and only reiki master out side Japan. Hawayo Takata's Reiki Masters certificate was signed by Chujiro Hayashi 21st February 1938 www. image,archives.</ref>.Takata had been given the full knowledge of The Usui Shiki Ryoho and was now fully qualified to teach Reiki Shiki ryoho as Certified on the 21 February 1938.This document was witnessed by public Notoriety, seal stamped, for the US State of Hawaii. Further reading on Hawayo Takata's Training. ^[10]

Reiki during Japan Pre WW11.

[[Takata returned to Japan in March 20th 1940,on board a steam ship bound for Yokohama Japan. Takata was led, she said, by a dream in which Hayashi appeared to he dressed in a white Kimono pacing up and down the room.Takata immediately took the first boat back to Japan in March 1940. ^[11] However when Takata announced her arrival in Yokohama, she was told she had arrived far too early. The invitations had only just been sent out. Takata arrived one month before the invitation date. So Hayashi sent her to Kyoto to learn about hydrotherapy for a month, and as he said, he will send a wire when she was to return.She was told not to go to the house in Tokyo but to come to their country Villa in Atami ,Shizuoka instead.There in Atami,Takata had a long discussion with Mr Hayashi before his Seppuku ceremony. Then he explained every thing to her, as well as handed her the deeds to his house and reiki clinic in Tokyo and his seal he used in business.Then announced to his reiki associates that Takata would be his successor as principle Master after his transition. Hayashi, was a captain 大尉 on reserve for Japanese Imperial Navy since 1916. He had just received a white package which caused him great concern.He was to be called to back active military duty. The white package contained the ceremonial sword as his only other alternative.Hayashi 'died by his own blade as he performed ritual seppuku. Hayashi rather, die by his own blade, as to protect his family from all repercussions, from his refusal participate in the bloodshed of Japan's pending war with the USA regarding Chujiro Hayashi's cause of death,sent from the 'Yasukuni Shrine' in Tokyo, 2014, to be published"""".ebliss54 12:18, 25 March 2015 (UTC) ]]

Takata gathered up her daughters who were studying in Japan and returned to Hawaii that year,June 3 rd 1940. She taught Reiki for the next forty years. Though she did not teach it under the name of reiki, but as Japanese massage as well Reiki masters who are members of the 'Reiki Alliance' Mieko Mitsui of Japanese birth, working as a journalist in New York In late 1978. Mitsui became a reiki master initiated by Barbara Weber Ray in 1985. In December 1985 Mitsui was allegedly was interviewed by a Japanese reporter, Ms Shiomi Takai, for an article on Reiki ,with the title 'A Quest for the Origin of "Reiki Healing",and was also about Mieko Mitsui's up and coming Reiki courses in Japan. The article appeared in the April 1986 edition of the Japanese Magazine "The Twilight Zone". It is a most interesting article that was written by an unknown author to Reiki. The interesting question to ask is why would Meiko Mitsui an authentic reiki master,just pass on all her alleged reiki history research to another author ? unknown to reiki, and for a magazine that soon went out of circulation. Mieko Mitsui translated Barbara Weber Rays book "The Reiki Factor" into Japanese. Mieko Mitsui also taught reiki levels one and two in Japan for many years after, well into the mid 1990's.There is clear evidence that most all alleged new reiki history information as contained in the Twilight Zone article is where a lot of miss leading reiki linage information sprung from. There are a number of books written on reiki that appear to have used this very unsubstantiated material, as the basis of their own reiki history research.Though many of these so called reiki authors never actually quoted this fact in their bibliography. These reiki books that contained the Twilight Zone material, began to flood into the reiki community since 1995, totally confusing every newcomer to reiki.[36] Sadly Hawayo Takata was blamed for this misleading information on reiki linage and teachings, which in fact had nothing to do with Takata at all. Like some reiki books as those listed for purchase which most all have very similar stories as found in the TWZ 1986 article. This 'TWZ' article was to cause of all the confusion in reiki. The reiki books written since 1995, most of which contain many of the elements found in the TWZ magazine article. One should exercise great caution in choosing their reiki initiating master and one of a reputable verifiable linage to Takata.Much of the TWZ magazine articles of'86 contents is not genuine, nor in content or in its connection with Usui reiki. Note that the TWZ article of 1986 also does not mention the name of 'Chujiro Hayashi' in the Usui reiki linage. Chujiro Hayashi who was perhaps the only genuine reiki master after Mikao Usui in 1926.^[12] There appears to be a deliberate omission of Chujiro Hayashi's name in the TWZ magazine article of 1986,coincidently was also absent on the Usui memorial, and is interestingly consistent with the book "The Reiki Factor"1983, and as in Weber's other editions.^[13]Hayashi's name is either completely missing or has been hidden and misspelt in the second edition of the Reiki Factor expanded edition or the name was spelt incorrectly altogether. However since those early years of 1985,Barbara Weber Ray's reiki web site has added Chujiro Hayashi's correct name , as part of Weber's reiki linage. Some researchers feel they have discovered that it is quite likely Mikao Usui Sensei ^[14], did not initiate several other Reiki Masters.However excepting that of which Chujiro Hayashi as Usui's main and perhaps only student and was the only one linked to reiki by pre 1930 reputable Japanese archival records or 'Sunday Every Day"' The Sunday Magazine', on March 4th,1928, written by Kabuki playwright author " Matsui Shoo"^[15] and ^[16] Hope "written by Matsui Shoo of Dokusho-ko</ref>, English translation on the following listed reference. Though there still is No verifiable independent,nor credible evidence to support these other reiki linage claims to date.There are a few other reiki masters, who have silently and patiently researched Reiki History, in Japan, that have discovered an alternate Reiki History, as spoken of and according to Hawayo Takata that will be well documented. There will be numerous supportive, verifiable records pre 1940 Japan.ebliss54 12:18, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

Bibliography

"In the Light of a Distant Star" by Wanja Twan,book;1995.ASIN: B00410GK0Y
"Principles of Reiki " by Kajsa Krishni Borang ISBN-13: 978-1848191389
Library of congress USA. call # RZ403.R45 B67 1997
Helen J Haberly,"Hawayo Takata's Story"1990, forth printing. ISBN-0944135064 in German, 0944135064 in English
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Fran Brown," Living Reiki,Takata's Teachings "1992, published by 'Life Rhythm' ISBN-0940795108
http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/25070829
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The Reiki Factor, Expanded Edition, by Barbara Ray 1987,1992 ISBN-10: 0933267061
L'esprit du reiki 1994 ,l'enseignement de Hawayo Takata / transcrit par Fran Brown ; [traduction française, Cathy Kronenberger, National Diet Library of Japan NDLC Call # SB237.