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Miss Kagoshima is by Yamamoto Shōkichi, artist name: Kenryûsai. Her personal name is Satsuma Akiko and her kimono crest is the maru ni tachibana (encircled mandarin orange).
Miss Kagoshima was part of the important display of eight Friendship Dolls at the Los Angeles World’s Sunday School Convention in July of 1928. Due to the confusion of finding placement locations for the final few dolls, as well as some organizational challenges, it was not until early February of 1929 before arrangements could be made for her to be sent to Phoenix, Arizona where she was placed in the Arizona Museum.
However, this was not the end of her journey, and as museums opened and closed and transitioned, she would move through multiple museum homes. She spent several years at the Arizona Science Center in Phoenix, Arizona before being transferred to the Arizona Heritage Center in nearby Tempe, Arizona in 2025.
She retains nearly all of her lacquered accessories bearing the tachibana crest as well as her U.S.-made travel trunk.