Cornelis van Nijenrode

Cornelis van Nijenrode, also Cornelis van Nieuwroode (born Naarden; died Hirado, 31 January 1633), was governor of the VOC-trading post in Hirado, Japan, from 1623 to 1633.

Cornelis arrived in Asia in 1607. He filled several posts at Dutch East India Company-trading post in Siam. In 1622, he took part in an expedition, sent from Formosa, to the coast of China.

In Japan, Cornelis had a daughter, Cornelia, with a Japanese woman named Surishia, and a second daughter with a different Japanese women; both children were acknowledged and provided for in his will.^[1]^[2]

Cornelis died in 1633, just before he was about to leave for Batavia.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Rijksmuseum (Netherlands) (2015-01-01). Asia in Amsterdam: The Culture of Luxury in the Golden Age. Yale University Press. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-300-21287-7.
^ "Asia in Amsterdam: The Culture of Luxury in the Golden Age". Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews. Retrieved 2025-06-07.

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[:0-1] Rijksmuseum (Netherlands) (2015-01-01). Asia in Amsterdam: The Culture of Luxury in the Golden Age. Yale University Press. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-300-21287-7.

[2] "Asia in Amsterdam: The Culture of Luxury in the Golden Age". Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews. Retrieved 2025-06-07.

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