American Mishima

When Words Cut Deeper Than Swords I write them down. -Rosas2009

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Friday, December 20, 2013

LA Eigafest 2013 Photos

Seen here is Actor Yuki Matsuzaki (Letters From Iwo Jima) at the US Premiere of "Unforgiven" starring Ken Watanabe at this year...

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Messing With Perfection? A Preview of the new live action Kiki's Delivery Service

Eight years before anyone had even heard of Harry Potter, there was Kiki's Delivery Service. Best known as the 1989 Studio Ghibli Clas...

Monday, December 16, 2013

A Prime Minister's Message of Hope

We came across this calligraphy earlier this month that was created by the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that expressed the word Yume...

Friday, December 13, 2013

A Solemn Testament To Wars Past: The Death of Admiral Yamamoto

As seen in the photo above is the last known image of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto of the Imperial Japanese Navy taken hours before his doomed...

Thursday, December 12, 2013

A Tale of Two Komets

Aviation War Historians have long written much about the famed Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet rocket plane and its role in the defense o...

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About Me

lasamurai: Little Tokyo, California, United States; “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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