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Miss Ishikawa is by the artist Kashimura Tokusaburō, whose artist name for the project was Shūtoku. Her personal name is Ishikawa Tomoko and her kimono crest is the maru ni tachi aoi (encircled standing hollyhock).
After spending part of the summer traveling around Montana, Miss Ishikawa was officially placed at the Montana Historical Society in Helena, Montana in early September of 1928, where she remains today.
She retains all of her accessories including her ship ticket and passport, missing only her U.S.-made travel trunk.
Miss Ishikawa returned to Japan in 1988 to be part of the important exhibition of 19 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 ten different locations: Yokohama, Hiroshima, Tokushima, Kobe, Sapporo, Matsuyama and several locations in the greater Tokyo area, including Chiba, Hachioji, Kashiwa and Omiya.
Through archival images, she has been determined to be the original Miss Akita.