Location

The Speed Art Museum (Louisville, Kentucky)

Newspaper Articles

• Single, 69, and a Real Doll - Describes how Miss Toyama, a 1927 Friendship Doll, fulfills her role as Japanese ambassador to Kentucky.

• Pretty Porcelain Dolls That Came in Peace - Article from The Christian Science Monitor, April 15, 1997.

• What Japanese Children Wrote About the Dolls - Three Japanese children share their thoughts after seeing Miss Toyama and an American Blue-eyed Doll.

• Doll returns for goodwill mission - Miss Toyama returns home to Kentucky after three years in Tokyo being restored by Yoshitoku Company, a renowned doll manufacturer.

Translated Web Pages

• Miss Toyama at the Wrather West Kentucky Museum - Photos of Toyama University professor's visit to see Miss Toyama in America.

• Miss Toyama - The Ambassador Doll's Homecoming - Photo of Miss Toyama with the six remaining Blue-eyed Dolls in Toyama Prefecture.

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