Now and then, something truly inspiring finds its way onto the internet. As is such the case this beautifully animated short by Inaba Hideo with music by Uematsu Nobuo produced for the Tsubaki Grand Shrine of Ise (The parent Shrine of the Grand Tsubaki Shrine of America) titled いせのいすずのもりの みや - Ise no Isuzu no Mori no Miya. It brightened our morning, may it brighten yours. Please enjoy!
“American Mishima” is the work of Louis Rosas, the son of Mexican Immigrants, whose father served in Vietnam for the US Army and who grew up on glamorized war films and military aviation in the sleepy seaside plains of Oxnard, Calif. With an early fascination of the Second World War embedded in his young mind during the post-Vietnam era, it was his exposure to Akira Kurosawa's samurai epic Ran (Toho, 1985) that changed his views of war while creating a lasting impression of Japanese culture and history. Further inspired by the works of Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, Rosas would go on to study Japanese language and swordsmanship, which led him to the practice of Shingon Buddhism and Shinto. Rosas is also a former student of Shinkendo, the ideal and practice of the samurai code of Bushido in the modern world, which helped shape the creative force that is “American Mishima.”
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