Takizawa Koryusai II, Tokubei Yamada X, and others
Miss Hiroshima Friendship Doll
1926
Scroll
- Maker: Takizawa Koryusai II
- Workshop: Tokubei Yamada X
- Maker: Yoshitoku Doll Company, Tokyo
Miss Hiroshima Friendship Doll
1926
Physical Qualities
Gofun (powdered shell), wood, human hair, glass; silk, cotton, 33 x 12 1/2 x 10 in. (83.8 x 31.8 x 25.4 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Children of Hiroshima, Japan, through the World Friendship Society
Object Number
1928.20
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1928; World Friendship Society
Yone Sugiyama, "The International Doll Festival (Hina Matsuri) and Sogetsu Flower Exhibtion," Baltimore City Bicentennial Committee, War Memorial, March 3-4, 1976.
Takuo Komatsuzaki and Sumika Harada, "Homecoming Exhibition of the First U.S.-Japan Doll Exchange," Kokusai Bunka Kyokai (International Cultural Association), circulating from the Japanese Embassy, Washington, D.C. to ten Japanese venues, April-September 1988.
The Detroit Institute of the Arts, "Japanese Friendship Dolls", March 4, 2023 - August 1, 2023.
Takuo Komatsuzaki and Sumika Harada, "Homecoming Exhibition of the First U.S.-Japan Doll Exchange," Kokusai Bunka Kyokai (International Cultural Association), circulating from the Japanese Embassy, Washington, D.C. to ten Japanese venues, April-September 1988.
The Detroit Institute of the Arts, "Japanese Friendship Dolls", March 4, 2023 - August 1, 2023.
'Just a Little Jap Doll -- But Her Name Made History,' "The Sun," Baltimore, October 19, 1945.
'Baltimore's Miss Hiroshima Doll,' "Focus," BMA, Winter 1989, p. 1.
Mitsuru Toyoda, 'Japan's Blue-Eyed Dolls,' "The Sun," Baltimore, Opinion-Commentary section, June 1, 1990.
Kunio Nishimura, 'The Friendship Dolls,' "Look Japan," July 1995, VOl. 41, No. 472, p. 33.
Michiko Takaoka, 'The Friendship Doll Program: A Past we Share, A Future we Build,' "Cultural Center News," Mukugawa Fort Wright Institute, Vol. V, No. 4, March and April 1996, pp. 1, 3.
Rosie D. Skiles, "Friendship Journal, A Souvenir Book," Japanese American Doll Enthusiasts Convention, Anaheim, California, July 25 & 26, 1997, p. 5.
Inscribed: Signed; not dated.
