On the stone he is called Janus Rhynhoud, while the correct spelling was Janis Reijnhout. He was a son of Jan Reijnhout and Pieternella Tiessen.
At the side of the stone is carved in Japanese characters the name of a Japanese woman: "This stone is erected by Yatsuhashi of the House Ofujiya on February 13th of the year of the Horse, Meiji 3". Ofuji-ya was a brothel and he may have died there.
[See: Rudy Kousbroek, In de tijdmachine door Japan: de Hofreis van het jaar 2000, Amsterdam: Meulenhoff 2000, 68-69; Gary P. Leupp, Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 2003, 195]
At the side of the stone is carved in Japanese characters the name of a Japanese woman: "This stone is erected by Yatsuhashi of the House Ofujiya on February 13th of the year of the Horse, Meiji 3". Ofuji-ya was a brothel and he may have died there.
[See: Rudy Kousbroek, In de tijdmachine door Japan: de Hofreis van het jaar 2000, Amsterdam: Meulenhoff 2000, 68-69; Gary P. Leupp, Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 2003, 195]
On the stone he is called Janus Rhynhoud, while the correct spelling was Janis Reijnhout. He was a son of Jan Reijnhout and Pieternella Tiessen.
At the side of the stone is carved in Japanese characters the name of a Japanese woman: "This stone is erected by Yatsuhashi of the House Ofujiya on February 13th of the year of the Horse, Meiji 3". Ofuji-ya was a brothel and he may have died there.
[See: Rudy Kousbroek, In de tijdmachine door Japan: de Hofreis van het jaar 2000, Amsterdam: Meulenhoff 2000, 68-69; Gary P. Leupp, Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 2003, 195]
At the side of the stone is carved in Japanese characters the name of a Japanese woman: "This stone is erected by Yatsuhashi of the House Ofujiya on February 13th of the year of the Horse, Meiji 3". Ofuji-ya was a brothel and he may have died there.
[See: Rudy Kousbroek, In de tijdmachine door Japan: de Hofreis van het jaar 2000, Amsterdam: Meulenhoff 2000, 68-69; Gary P. Leupp, Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 2003, 195]
Inscription
Janus Rhynhoud, geboren in 1816 te Goes in Zeeland, overleden Nagasaki den 24sten Januarij 1870
See: Rudy Koubroek, In de tijdmachine door Japan. De hofreis van het jaar 2000, Amsterdam: Meulenhoff 2000, p. 69
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