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Miss Kyoto-fu represents the province around Kyoto rather than the city itself and is by the artist Hirata Gōyō II. Her personal name is Yamashiro Kyoto and her kimono crest is the nakakage 5-7 kiri (shaded 5-7 paulownia).
After travelling extensively in the northeast, Miss Kyoto-fu was placed in the Boston Children’s Museum in July of 1928, where she remains today.
While she does have a fairly extensive and complete set of lacquer furnishings, they are composed of those bearing the crest designed for Miss Saga and a few bearing the generic botan peony crests designed for travel sets and for the dolls representing the 4 Japanese colonies.
In 1985 Miss Kyoto-fu returned to Japan, along with Miss Nagoya, for an exhibition entitled: Women and the War, sponsored by the Chunichi Shinbun newspaper. And she returned again to Japan in 1988 to participate in the important 19 Friendship Doll Exhibition organized by the Kokusai Bunka Kyōkai (Japanese International Culture Association), Soga Department Store and the Asahi Shimbun newspaper in Tokyo.