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 kimono features a waterfall and the flowers of the four seasons: maple leaves, pine trees, cherry blossoms and asters. The hem is decorated with a bridge and maple leaves in autumnal colors; lower sleeves are decorated with cherry blossoms. The ground, once deep purple, has faded. The crest of an encircled wild goose (or knotted wild goose) (maru ni musubi karigane) appears on each shoulder and arm, and on the back of the kimono in the five places occupied by traditional family crests.
Miss Hiroshima's accessories - her lacquer chests for clothing storage and her every-day tea set are decorated with mountain cherry blossom (yamazakura) crests rather than the encircled wild goose. It has not been possible to identify a city attached with either the kari crest or the sakura.
Please see object record 1928.20.2 for accessories.
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.
