Submit an Online Remembrance
Even if you are unable to float a lantern in person at the ceremony at Ala Moana Beach, you can still send a remembrance to be floated on your behalf.
Your remembrance will be transcribed and affixed to the wood-framed Collective Remembrance Lanterns and floated for you by volunteers on canoes during the ceremony.
If you reside in Hawaiʻi or near a Shinnyo-en temple or training center, we encourage you to personally handwrite your remembrances in person.
Note: Submitting a message here does not mean that you are reserving an Individual Lantern for the day of the ceremony.
View this year’s submitted remembrances on the Submitted Remembrances page.
Submit an Online Remembrance
Online remembrance submissions for the 2026 ceremony are now closed. View submitted remembrances.
Every message received by Sunday, May 24, 2026 11:59 p.m. Hawaiʻi time, will be affixed to a Collective Remembrance Lantern and floated by canoe crew volunteers during the ceremony on Monday, May 25, 2026.
If you are able to join us in person at Ala Moana Beach at the ceremony, consider writing a remembrance at the Collective Remembrance Tent. The tent will be open 10 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Monday, May 25, 2026.