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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 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.
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>
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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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