Edmund M.K. Enomoto
Jan. 16, 1946 – Aug. 3, 2024
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi – Edmund M.K. Enomoto of Waiohuli Hawaiian homestead in Kula, Maui, died Aug. 3, 2024, at Kaiser Moanalua Medical Center. He was 78. Services were held August 12 at Ballard Family Mortuary in Kahului. He was buried at Maui Veterans Cemetery in Makawao. Enomoto was born Jan. 16, 1946, at Puʻunene. He graduated from Holy Rosary School in Paʻia, Kamehameha School for Boys, and the California College of Arts & Crafts. He held a teaching certificate from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He was stationed as an Army illustrator at Fort Knox, KY, where he won the first annual Armed Forces Art Show. Enomoto became the art director for Kaizawa Advertising, then a freelance artist associated with the Hawaiʻi Potters Guild. He retired from St. Andrew’s Priory School, where he had served as art department head and athletic director. He also retired from King Kekaulike High School, where he taught ceramics, drawing and painting. He was named a Living Treasure of Hawaiʻi as a ceramicist in 1987 at the age of 41 – one of the youngest ever to receive that accolade. He was founding head coast of the former Mullets Volleyball Club, he co-founded the Hawaiian Canoe Club’s recreational paddling program, and he was an avid heʻe free diver. Enomoto is survived by his wife, Kekoa Enomoto, daughter Elisabeth Lehua Enomoto, son Edmund Honu Enomoto, brother Andrew Enomoto, and granddaughter Kamalani Hue Enomoto.
