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Miss Nara is by the artist Iwamura Shōkensai and her kimono crest is the maru ni mitsuba aoi (encircled triple hollyhock).
Miss Nara travelled extensively in the Western States and participated in the important International Sunday School Convention in Los Angeles, California in July of 1928 where 8 of the Friendship Dolls were exhibited. She was finally sent for permanent placement to the Idaho State Historical Society in Boise, Idaho in January of 1929, where she remains today.
She retains a complete set of furnishings, missing only her U.S.-made travel trunk.
In 1994, Miss Nara returned to Japan for conservation through the auspices of Yoshitoku Doll Company in Tokyo. At that time the Historical Society was gifted a companion doll for Miss Nara by the governor of Nara Prefecture.
Through archival photographs her identity has been confirmed as the original Miss Kanagawa.