Cornelis van Nijenroode

Died: 1633

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.^[1] 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. She went on to have an active life in the Dutch East Indies. With the other woman, Tokeshio, he had a daughter named Esther.

Prior to his time in Japan, van Nijenroode spent some time in Ayutthaya (Siam).^[2]

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

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References

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.

↑ Gallery labels, Dutch Trading Post, Hirado.
↑ Cesare Polenghi, Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seventeenth-century Siam. Bangkok: White Lotus Press (2009), 37.

[1] Gallery labels, Dutch Trading Post, Hirado.

[2] Cesare Polenghi, Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seventeenth-century Siam. Bangkok: White Lotus Press (2009), 37.

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