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Miss Hokkaidō is by the artist Iwamura Shōkensai. Her personal name is Hokkaidō Hanako and her kimono crest is the futaba aoi (two hollyhock leaves).
She was part of the large twelve-doll exhibition held in Minneapolis, Minnesota in July of 1928 and was retained there under the custodianship of the Minneapolis Church Federation until she was placed in the Davenport Public Museum (now the Putnam Museum) in Davenport, Iowa in May of 1929.
In 1930 she was temporarily exhibited in Cedar Rapids, Iowa at The Little Gallery.
Miss Hokkaidō returned to Japan in 1988 to be part of the important exhibition of nineteen Friendship Dolls and 34 of the “blue-eyed” Doll Messengers of Goodwill organized by the Kokusai Bunka Kyōkai (Japanese International Culture Association), Sogo Department Store and the Asahi Shimbun newspaper in Tokyo. Using Sogo Department Stores as the venue, from April to September, this exhibition visited 10 different locations: Yokohama, Hiroshima, Tokushima, Kobe, Sapporo, Matsuyama and several locations in the greater Tokyo area, including Chiba, Hachioji, Kashiwa and Omiya.
Miss Hokkaidō retains a nearly complete set of furnishings, missing only her original passport and U.S.-made travel trunk.
Through comparisons with archival photographs she has been identified as the original Miss Fukuoka.