Hendrik van Haaster was a physician resident at the [[Dutch East India Company]] base at [[Dejima]] from [[1734]]-[[1738]].
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Hendrik van Haaster was a physician resident at the [[Dutch East India Company]] base at [[Dejima]] from [[1734]]-[[1738]]. He had at least one child by a [[courtesan]] of the [[Maruyama]], possibly Wakamatsu of the Tanba-ya.
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*Gary Leupp, ''Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-1900'', A&C Black (2003), 123.
*Gary Leupp, ''Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-1900'', A&C Black (2003), 123.