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Miss Shizuoka is by the artist Hirata Gōyō II. Her personal name is Fujiyama Mihoko and she wears a replacement kimono bearing the new Shizuoka Prefecture crest.
Miss Shizuoka was originally sent to the Kansas City Public Library, which also contained an art gallery and an ethnographic museum, but it is unclear where in the library she was displayed.
Around 1940, Miss Shizuoka was transferred to the new Kansas City Museum, but little is known of her life or how the war impacted her during this period.
In 1988, she was sent back to Japan to participate in an important exhibition that saw 19 of the original Friendship Dolls reunited for the first time since 1927. At this time, it was discovered that she was inexplicably wearing a replacement kimono designed for another doll, Miss Kobe. Miss Kobe is now sadly among our missing dolls.
In 2016, Miss Shizuoka was sent back to Japan again for some needed conservation. While there she was fêted at a homecoming ceremony in Shizuoka and was presented with a special kimono specifically designed for her bearing the two most famous sites in that Prefecture: Mt Fuji and the Miho Pines, which also complements her personal name: Fujiyama Mihoko. The crest chosen for her was the Cha-no-mi-no-mon (Tea fruit crest), reflective of Shizuoka’s famous tea, Shizuoka-cha.