The Five Domains

Kuleana is not owed to one thing but to five widening circles of relationship. Each domain is a section of the filing, and each carries five line items — a structured way to account for what you received, tended, and returned.

Part I

Filing context

Before the domains, every filing names its ground: the filer, the accounting period, the place of accountability, the relationships represented, and the basis of kuleana — by what right and responsibility you stand where you stand.

A · ʻIho — Self

Integrity, capacity, and inner stewardship. Can you tend others if you have not tended yourself?

A1 · Capacity maintained — did you keep your own capacity intact?
A2 · Integrity of action — did word and deed align?
A3 · Limits recognized — did you honor your real limits?
A4 · Repair undertaken — where you fell short, did you make it right?
A5 · Burden transferred — did you push weight you should have carried onto others?

B · ʻOhana — Family & kin

Care across the generations — the labor that markets never count.

B1 · Keiki contribution (Kc) — investment in the young.
B2 · Kūpuna care (Ku) — care for the elders.
B3 · Care labor recognized — is unseen care named and valued?
B4 · Intergenerational reciprocity — does care flow both up and down the line?
B5 · Relational presence — were you actually there?

C · Kaiāulu — Community

Participation, contribution, and the shared infrastructure that holds a place together.

C1 · Time investment (T) — hours given to the common life.
C2 · Shared infrastructure — did you build or only use?
C3 · Participation in decisions — did you show up to govern, not just consume?
C4 · Local circulation — did value stay and circulate in place?
C5 · Burden and benefit distribution — who carried the cost, who kept the gain?

D · ʻĀina — Land & water

Ecological continuity — the account the land keeps whether or not we do.

D1 · Land tending (L) — active care of ʻāina.
D2 · Resources taken — what did you draw down?
D3 · Waste and externalities — what did you leave behind or push downstream?
D4 · Regeneration — did you return more than you took?
D5 · Downstream accountability — who inherits the consequences of your use?

E · Lāhui — Collective future

Continuity, justice, governance, and the generations not yet born.

E1 · Future-generation contribution — what did you build for those who come after?
E2 · Institutional responsibility — did you tend the institutions others depend on?
E3 · Cultural continuity — did language, practice, and memory carry forward?
E4 · Structural justice — did you leave the structure more just than you found it?
E5 · Transfer of capability — did you pass on the ability to continue the work?

Each domain closes with a narrative statement — because numbers alone cannot hold a relationship. The line items sharpen the questions; the story keeps them honest.

Next: the accounting — variables, the Kuleana Quotient, and the ahupuaʻa flow →