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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]]. He was the fifth to hold that post.<ref>Gallery labels, Dutch Trading Post, Hirado.</ref> 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]].

 

 

He died in [[1633]]. Cornelia's mother Surishia then married the [[Hirado]]-based merchant Handa Goemon.  

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==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.

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