Isaac Titsingh

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Isaac 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.

References

  • Gary Leupp, Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-1900, A&C Black (2003), 123.