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Miss Shimane is by the artist Takizawa Kōryūsai II. Her personal name is Nadeshiko-san, and her kimono crest is the kishu mutsu aoi (six-lobed hollyhock).
Miss Shimane was placed in the Indianapolis Children’s Museum in Indianapolis, Indiana. She retains a complete set of accessories, including her U.S.-made travel trunk. The lacquered furnishings all bear the nadeshiko (large pink frilled carnation), which accounts for her personal name: Nadeshiko-san.
The Indianapolis Children’s Museum also retains a wonderful archival photograph of Miss Shimane soon after her arrival displayed in a large glass cabinet with all of her accessories. These photos showing their installation were a requirement of all the institutions receiving a Friendship Doll. Copies of these images were supposed to be sent to each of the Governors of the prefectures and Mayors of the cities which the doll represented so that the people and children of Japan could see where their Doll Ambassador had gone and how well she was being received. Unfortunately, relatively few of these important images survive.
Through archival images, she has been determined to be the original Miss Wakayama.