Kingo Miyabe

He received the Order of Cultural Merit in 1946 and was an honorary international member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

[1] As part of broader efforts to develop expertise in scientific botany in Japan, Miyabe traveled to Harvard University to study with Asa Gray and William G. Farlow, where he earned a D.Sc.

[3] Miyabe maintained active correspondence with botanists around the world, including Curtis Gates Lloyd.

He is best known for a series of floristic studies of Japan, including The Flora of the Kurile Islands (1890), The Laminariaceae of Hokkaido (1902), Plants in Sakhalin (1915, co-authored with Tsutome Miyake), Flora of Hokkaido and Saghalien (co-authored with Yushun Kudo), and Icones of the essential forest trees of Hokkaido (1920–1923, co-authored with Yushun Kudo and Chusuke Suzaki).

[5] The "Miyabe maple" (Acer miyabei), which he first identified in Hokkaido in the 1880s, now grows at botanic gardens and arboreta around the world.