American Mishima

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

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Thursday, July 10, 2014

Ichiro Dreams In Color Relaunched!

The first illustrated American Mishima book by Louis Edward Rosas has been re-released with larger type and additional artwork as a revise...

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Sayonara Samurai Blue

Japan's hopes for advancing to the Group of 16 were dashed today by it's defeat to Group C leader Columbia. For a moment at the 45...

Monday, June 23, 2014

American Mishima: The Real Soldier and the Samurai

It's not everyday an author gets to honor a person who has inspired your work but this last Sunday at the Aoba Matsuri (Birthday for K...

Friday, June 20, 2014

Samurai Blue Update

In the end, it was a great effort with no real results. Japan failed to capitalize on Greece's deficiencies with one man out from a re...

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

New American Mishima Epic Released!

Our long awaited Historical epic has finally been published! Story Synopsis: When the Elite Corps of Samurai known as the Shinsengumi ...

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

American Mishima Visits The Battleship Iowa BB-61

We've long been a big fan of WWII era battle wagons such as the Bismark, Yamato, and the USS Missouri. This last weekend we got our op...

Monday, June 16, 2014

一日の画像 - Picture of the Day

Seen here are Local Japanese-American WWII re-en actors pose for photos representing the legendary "Go For Broke" 442nd Regiment...

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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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