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Miss Yamanashi is by Takizawa Kōryūsai II. Her personal name is Kai Fujiko Yamanashi and the crest on her kimono is the agari fuji hishi (climbing wisteria diamond).
Miss Yamanashi travelled extensively throughout the Midwest in the spring of 1928 with a number of documented stops in Kansas, before being permanently placed at the Wyoming State Museum in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
She retains a nearly complete set of furnishings, missing only her US-made travel trunk. Somewhat inexplicably for such a complete trousseau is the fact that her lacquer furnishings all bear the botan peony crest as opposed to her personal crest. In addition, the museum retains some 40 letters written by Japanese school children and sent to accompany her on her journey and as a way to better introduce her to her new family.
In 1998 she returned to Japan to be exhibited at the Yokohama Doll Museum as part of their important exhibition Doll Ambassadors Across the Sea: Tracing the Journey of the Friendship Dolls.