Last October, the Royal Scottish Geographical Society conferred its Diploma of Fellowship upon Professor Kiyonori Kanasaka of Kyoto University.
The society's president, the Earl of Lindsay, presented the award for the professor's "contribution to the science of geography and in particular his research into the travels and writings of Isabella Bird."
A year earlier, the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh staged an exhibition of Kanasaka's photographs "taken in the footsteps of the 19th-century author, traveler and photographer Isabella Bird." Isabella's original pictures, previously exhibited in Japan but never before in the U.K., were displayed with Kanasaka's photographs of the same images, taken more than 100 years later, shown alongside.