− | J.F. van Overmeer Fischer was an agent of the [[Dutch East India Company]], active in Japan in [[1820]] to [[1829]]. | + | 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. |