Isaac Titsingh
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Jump to navigationJump to searchIsaac Titsingh was director (opperhoofd) of the Dutch East India Company factory on Dejima from 1779 until 1784. He had at least one child by a courtesan of the Maruyama, a fifteen-year-old tayû named Ukine.
He was succeeded as opperhoofd by Hendrik Casper Romberg in 1784. Titsingh later headed the last Dutch embassy to Beijing, in 1794-1795.[1]
References
- Gary Leupp, Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-1900, A&C Black (2003), 123.
- ↑ Ta-Tuan Ch’en, “Sino–Liu-Ch'iuan Relations in the Nineteenth Century,” PhD dissertation, Indiana University (1963), 125-127.
