C E R T I F I C A T E
THIS IS TO CERTIFY that Mrs. Hawayo Takata, an American citizen born in the Territory of Hawaii, after a course of study and training in the Usui system of Reiki healing undertaken under my personal supervision during a visit to Japan in 1935 and subsequently, has passed all the tests and proved worthy and capable of administering the treatment and of conferring the power of Reiki on others.
THEREFORE I, Dr. Chujiro Hayashi, by virtue of my authority as a Master of the Usui Reiki system of drugless healing, do hereby confer upon Mrs. Hawayo Takata the full power and authority to practice the Reiki system and to impart to others the secret knowledge and the gift of healing under this system.
MRS. HAWAYO TAKATA is hereby certified by me as a practitioner and Master of Dr. Usui’s Reiki system of healing, at this time the only person in the United States authorized to confer similar powers on others and one of the thirteen fully qualified as a Master of the profession.
Signed by me this 21st. day of February, 1938, in the city and county of Honolulu, territory of Hawaii.
(SIGNED) Chujiro Hayashi
Witness to his signature:
Yoshino Hanao
TERRITORY OF HAWAII
City and County of Honolulu
On this 21st day of February, A.D. 1938 before me personally appeared (DR.) CHUJIRO HAYASHI to me known to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing instrument and acknowledged that WHO executed the same as HIS free act and deed.
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Notary Public, First Judicial Circuit,
Territory of Hawaii
