page_title: Japanese friendship dolls
section_title: List of friendship dolls
hierarchical_section_title: Japanese friendship dolls / List of friendship dolls
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Japanische Puppe Miss Shimane, Children's Museum of Indianapolis. English: Miss Shimane Japanese friendship ambassador doll, The Children's Museum of Indianapolis.
context_page_description: Japanese friendship dolls or Japanese ambassador dolls and the American blue-eyed dolls were programs of goodwill between Japan and the United States. American Sidney Gulick, a missionary in Japan, initiated an exchange of dolls between children as a way to ease cultural tensions in the 1920s. Japanese Viscount Eiichi Shibusawa responded by initiating a program to send 58 dolls to American museums and libraries.
  A similar concept is the Kokeshi doll.
context_section_description: Over the years, a few dolls were lost or are missing, but many are still on display today. Those whose locations are known include:
  Miss Aichi, sent to Nashville, Tennessee, was lost for decades but rediscovered in 2014 and returned to Japan
  Miss Akita at the Detroit Children's Museum in Detroit
  Miss Aomori, in a private collection
  Miss Chiba, sent to Riverside, California, present location unknown
  Miss Chosen at the Brauer Museum of Art in Valparaiso, Indiana
  Miss Dai Nippon (Miss Japan) at the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
  Miss Ehime, at Gulfport, Mississippi, destroyed in Hurricane Camille and replaced in 1988
  Miss Fukui, sent to Salt Lake City, present location unknown
  Miss Fukuoka at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene, Oregon
  Miss Fukushima, sent to Houston, now in a private collection
  Miss Gifu at the Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland
  Miss Gunma, sent to Brooklyn, now at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens in Delray Beach, Florida
  Miss Hiroshima at the Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore
  Miss Hokkaido at the Putnam Museum of History and Natural Science in Davenport, Iowa
  Miss Hyogo at the St. Joseph Museum in Saint Joseph, Missouri
  Miss Ibaraki (Tsukuba Kasumi) at the Milwaukee Public Museum in Milwaukee - the Messenger of Friendship is again on display due to the tsunami and earthquake in Japan
  Miss Ishikawa at that Montana Historical Society in Helena, Montana
  Miss Iwate at the Birmingham Public Library in Birmingham, Alabama
  Miss Kagawa at the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, North Carolina
  Miss Kagoshima at the Phoenix Museum of History in Phoenix, Arizona
  Miss Kanagawa, sent to Eugene, Oregon, present location unknown
  Miss Kanto-shu, sent to Manchester, New Hampshire, now in a private collection
  Miss Karafuto, sent to Wilmington, Delaware, confused with Miss Nagano
  Miss Kobe-shi, sent to Stamford, Connecticut, present location unknown
  Miss Kochi at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh
  Miss Kumamoto, sent to New Orleans, present location unknown
  Miss Kyoto-fu at Boston Children's Museum in Boston
  Miss Kyoto-shi at the Arkansas Museum of Discovery in Little Rock, Arkansas
  Miss Miyazaki, at the Hennepin County Library in Minneapolis, Minnesota
  Miss Mie at the University of Nebraska State Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska
  Miss Miyagi, sent to Topeka, Kansas, now in a private collection
  Miss Nagano, sent to Providence, Rhode Island, now at the Delaware Historical Society in Wilmington, Delaware
  Miss Nagasaki (Tamako) at the Rochester Museum and Science Center in Rochester, New York
  Miss Nagoya-shi at the Atlanta History Center in Atlanta
  Miss Nara at the Idaho Historical Museum in Boise, Idaho
  Miss Oita at the Springfield Science Museum in Springfield, Massachusetts
  Miss Okayama at the North Dakota State University Textile Collection in Fargo, North Dakota
  Miss Okinawa at the Cincinnati Art Museum in Cincinnati
  Miss Osaka-fu, sent to Newark, New Jersey, now at the Ohio Historical Society in Columbus, Ohio
  Miss Osaka-shi at the Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey
  Miss Saga, sent to Philadelphia, present location unknown
  Miss Saitama at the Charleston Museum in Charleston, South Carolina
  Miss Shiga, sent to Miami, present location unknown
  Miss Shimane at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis in Indianapolis
  Miss Shizuoka at the Kansas City Museum in Kansas City, Missouri
  Miss Taiwan at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in Los Angeles
  Miss Tochigi, sent to Charleston, West Virginia, present location unknown
  Miss Tokushima at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in Spokane, Washington
  Miss Tokyo-fu, sent to Richmond, Virginia, present location unknown
  Miss Tokyo-shi, sent to New York City, present location unknown
  Miss Tottori at the Museum of the South Dakota State Historical Society in Pierre, South Dakota
  Miss Toyama at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky
  Miss Wakayama at the Nevada Historical Society in Reno, Nevada
  Miss Yamagata at the Maine State Museum 
caption: Miss Shimane at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis
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