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Esther van Nijenroode was the daughter of [[Dutch East India Company]] factor and a Japanese [[courtesan]] named Tokeshio.
She was born in [[Nagasaki]]. Following her father's death in [[1633]], Esther and her half-sister [[Cornelia van Nijenroode]] were taken in by the Company, who paid their mothers substantial sums in exchange for being permitted to take the girls out of the country, and to Batavia in [[1636]]. Both were there placed in an orphanage, and raised as Protestant Christians. Esther left the orphanage in [[1644]] and married an English lieutenant, who died several years later.
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==References==
*Gary Leupp, ''Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-1900'', A&C Black (2003), 117.
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