| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.4

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.4 | The History Cooperative

Gail Lee Bernstein. Isami's House: Three Centuries of a Japanese Family. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2005. Pp. xxviii, 283. $19.95.
Gail Lee Bernstein has written a rich and engaging history of the people who have constituted her "Japanese family" since her doctoral dissertation days in the early 1960s. This history of the Matsuura family is indeed, as Bernstein claims, "a prism for viewing modern Japanese history" (p. xii).	1
The Matsuura family is by no means "typical" or "average," considering that its heads were village headmen for thirteen generations from the late seventeenth century until the late 1950s. But their wealth and authority as members of the rural elite did not insulate the twelfth and thirteenth generations from having to make sometimes difficult adjustments to cope with the wide-ranging social, economic, and political changes associated with modernization, imperialism, and war during the twentieth century.	. . .

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