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Miss Okayama is by the artist Takizawa Kōryūsai II. Her personal name is Okayama Momoko and her kimono crest is the maru ni sumitate yotsume (encircled titled four-eyed squares).
Late in the summer of 1928, she was placed the Masonic Lodge in Fargo, North Dakota, where she was immediately embraced by the Lodge’s museum and library director, Clara Alida Richards, who staged many special trips and created opportunities for the doll to be shown to a wide variety of people.
Richards took a special interest in the doll and wrote frequently of her and the number of people Miss Okayama’s message was reaching in her reports to the main lodge, speaking eloquently of how the doll touched people, both adults and children alike.
Miss Okayama was under the Masonic Lodge’s care until the building was closed in 1968.
At this time, she was placed under the custodianship of the local American Red Cross until she was finally transferred to the museum at the University of North Dakota in Fargo in 1973.
Today, Miss Okayama remains in the University Museum as part of the Emily Reynolds Historic Costume Collection. She retains a nearly complete set of furnishings, missing her ship ticket, passport, parasol and U.S.-made travel trunk.