American Mishima

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

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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Washington's Sakura Matsuri

Every Spring in Japan is marked by the annual Sakura Viewing festivals and parties. But when it comes to Cherry Blossom festivals, you ma...

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

JMSDF Appoints First Female Officer to Command a Destroyer

We at American Mishima would like to share with you some news we got from the Naval Forces News of Japan. The JMSDF appointed Commander M...

Getting Real on Yonaguni Island

Japan's Defense Ministry has announced the opening of a new radar facility on Yonaguni Island. Never heard of it before? If you love ...

一日の画像 - Picture of the Day

Seen here is yours truly on our wedding day taken March 26th 2016 at the Tsubaki Grand Shrine of America in Granite Falls Washington. We s...

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Taking No Chances

Seen here is Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meeting with his top military advisors after deploying Patriot Advanced Capability 3 Missile Inte...

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

一日の画像 - Picture of the Day: Kiki Alive!

Seen here is is a girl dressed as the Hayao Miyazaki character Kiki from the 1989 Studio Ghibli anime classic "Kiki's Delivery S...

Thursday, February 18, 2016

Death by Prop Samurai Sword

As many people know, Japanese Jidaigeki Dramas of the Samurai period have been popular in Japan since the introduction of television. Thr...

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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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