Changes

Line 1: Line 1:  +
*''Died: [[1633]]''
   −
Cornelis van Nijenroode was a chief factor of the [[Dutch East India Company]] operations in Japan. He was appointed to that post in [[1623]]. During his time in Japan, he had relationships with two [[courtesans]] of the [[Maruyama]] district, and had a daughter with each; one of these daughters was [[Cornelia van Nijenroode]], who went on to have an active life in the Dutch East Indies.
+
Cornelis van Nijenroode was chief factor of the [[Dutch East India Company]] operations in Japan from [[1623]] to [[1632]]. During his time in Japan, he had relationships with two [[courtesans]] of the [[Maruyama]] district, and had a daughter with each. With one woman, known only as Surishia, Nijenroode had a daughter in [[1630]] who they named [[Cornelia van Nijenroode|Cornelia]]. She went on to have an active life in the Dutch East Indies. With the other woman, Tokeshio, he had a daughter named [[Esther van Nijenroode|Esther]].
    
Prior to his time in Japan, van Nijenroode spent some time in [[Ayutthaya]] (Siam).<ref>Cesare Polenghi, ''Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seventeenth-century Siam''. Bangkok: White Lotus Press (2009), 37.</ref>
 
Prior to his time in Japan, van Nijenroode spent some time in [[Ayutthaya]] (Siam).<ref>Cesare Polenghi, ''Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seventeenth-century Siam''. Bangkok: White Lotus Press (2009), 37.</ref>
 +
 +
He died in [[1633]]. Cornelia's mother Surishia then married the [[Hirado]]-based merchant Handa Goemon.
    
{{stub}}
 
{{stub}}
Line 8: Line 11:  
==References==
 
==References==
 
*Amy Stanley, ''Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan'', UC Press (2012), 77.
 
*Amy Stanley, ''Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan'', UC Press (2012), 77.
 +
*Gary Leupp, ''Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-1900'', A&C Black (2003), 117.
 
<references/>
 
<references/>
   −
[[Category:Edo Period]]
+
[[Category:Edo Period|Nijenroode]]
[[Category:Foreigners]]
+
[[Category:Foreigners|Nijenroode]]
contributor
26,977

edits