J.F. van Overmeer Fischer was an agent of the [[Dutch East India Company]], active in Japan in [[1820]] to [[1829]].
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J.F. van Overmeer Fischer was an agent of the [[Dutch East India Company]], active in Japan in [[1820]] to [[1829]]. He had a mistress named Shô, with whom he had a son who died in infancy, on [[Dejima]], at the age of only nine months.
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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.