Louis Edward Rosas
American Mishima es el trabajo creativo de Louis Edward Rosas, autor de Ichiro Dreams In Color , The Solider and the Samurai y el American Mishima Blog .
Actualizado en diciembre de 2013
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Uncovering the Past
7 de abril de 2014 • Louis Edward Rosas
As I go through my father’s things in the aftermath of his death, I came across a small book “Oxnard: 1941-2004 (Images of America)” about the town we had lived in during the 1970s, that town being Oxnard, California. So what is so special about Oxnard in relation to American Mishima? Aside from it being the birthplace of our illustrated book Ichiro Dreams In Color, it was the home to a thriving Japanese American community before World War II and …
An American Mishima: The Soldier and the Samurai
23 de diciembre de 2013 • Louis Edward Rosas
The year was 1965. Twenty years had passed since the end of the catastrophic war that left much of Japan reduced to ashes. Since that time, Japan had rebuilt with modern industries and towering metropolises. There, in a darkly lit room with gray carpet stood Soji Nishida now 40 years of age looking out his Tokyo hotel room window marveling at the cityscape lining the rainy afternoon sky. It reminded him much of his boyhood home before the war back …