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Miss Saitama is by the artist Takizawa Kōryūsai II. Her personal name is Chichibune Tamako and her kimono crest is the maru ni gohonbune ogi (encircled five-tine fan).
Miss Saitama was placed in the Charleston Museum in Charleston, South Carolina in August of 1928 where she remains today. She retains a nearly complete set of accessories, missing only her zori sandals. She has the passport for Miss Nagano, and, interestingly, she retains gold-accented kimono carrying poles originally designed for one of the City Dolls. In addition, she retains a number of miniature kimono and futon bedding gifted by the children of Saitama Prefecture at the time of her formal sobetsukai going away ceremony in 1927.
Soon after her arrival, Miss Saitama also traveled to the State Fair in Columbia, South Carolina and then to a special exhibition at Winthrop College in Rockhill, South Carolina with all of her accessories.
She returned to Japan in 1988 to participate in the important exhibition of Japanese Friendship Dolls and the American Doll Messengers of Goodwill organized by the Kokusai Bunka Kyōkai (Japanese International Culture Association), Sogo Department Store and the Asahi Shimbun newspaper in Tokyo. This event saw the gathering together of 19 of the Friendship Dolls and 34 of the “blue-eyed” dolls so treasured in Japan today.
Through archival image comparisons, she has been determined to be the original Miss Taiwan.