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Set amidst the backdrop of the Bakumatsu Period of Japan (The Last Days of the Tokugawa Shogunate), Hatamoto takes us into the world of the foreign-born men who became direct Vassals of the 15th and final Shogun during the opening salvos of the Boshin War. For former American Southerner John Paul Ledoux, he will be given the name Gingiro Asakage and the mantle of the two swords of the Samurai and if necessary, he will die for it.

What happens when a young boy's dreams of flight fly right into the conflict of his grandparent's generation? In this cautionary tale, a young Japanese boy named Ichiro will have to use his imagination to find more peaceful means to look up to the skies and dream! Inspired by true events, Ichiro Dreams in Color is the first book by author Louis Edward Rosas, the creative force that is American Mishima.