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Irei: To Console the Spirits

From Irei Project Director, Duncan Ryūken Williams: "I am pleased to announce 'Voicing Refuge,' the Irei Project’s invitation to the public to create a communal monument through our voices. In this component of the Ireizō website, we honor the over 125,000 persons of Japanese ancestry unjustly incarcerated during WWII by reading aloud and recording their names. As recordings are logged in this audio archive, our collective voices form a cloud of names that constitutes this monument. 'Voicing Refuge' is accessible on the Ireizō from anywhere around the world. And like the Ireichō book and name stamping, the reading and recording of the names is open to anyone, not just camp survivors and descendants. Indeed, our project of speaking these names requires the broadest possible participation in a practice of remembrance that can help to repair this difficult moment in American history. Many religions and cultures have rituals structured around remembrance, where the mere utterance of a person’s name is significant. As a Buddhist priest myself, the Japanese Buddhist tradition offers the practice of nenbutsu, which usually connotes the recitation of the Buddha’s name. However, the original meaning of 'nen' (recollection) and 'butsu' (the Buddha) is not just an utterance, but a remembrance that makes that which is absent present again. In the wake of the Buddha’s passing, therefore, a practice developed of remembering a teacher no longer physically present, so that he could be recalled in the form of a presence or a teaching. Calling forth those who have gone before us, we create a sonic refuge connecting the past to the present. Through the invocation of their names, they, in turn, protect us as exemplars of perseverance in the face of injustice. Using the power of our voice, the 'Voicing Refuge' initiative protects the Japanese American WWII incarceration from being excised from our national memory. And by joining our voices together, we become the monument to this history. We need your help to bring the Voicing Refuge monument to life. For instructions on how to read and record names from the archive of names, please visit the Ireizō website. As always, if you have questions or thoughts on the Irei project, please feel free to reach out. In gratitude, Duncan Ryūken Williams" https://ireizo.org/