is the ninth studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Miyuki Nakajima, released in March 1982. The term "Kansuigyo", which means opposite of , is Nakajima's neologism.
Five months before the album came out, she produced a hit single "Bad Girl (Akujo)", which became her first chart topper since "Wakareuta (The Parting Song)" in 1977. The song became one of the most commercially successful single of that year, reaching the top-10 on the year-end chart of 1982. In the following year, Sylvie Vartan covered the song in French-translated lyrics on her Danse ta vie album, under the alternative title "Ta vie de chien".
Kansuigyo begin with another interpretation of above-mentioned successful song, which features more rock-oriented arrangement and her listless vocals. Rest of the album mainly consists of the ballads that used strings effectively . "Utahime (Diva)", 8-minute-long track included at the end of the album has been one of her fan favorites and also included on her later "greatest hits". Lyrics of "Keisha (The Incline)", the song which described melancholy of a solitary elderly woman who are walking on steep slope, was evaluated literarily and had been listed in a textbook on the Japanese language around the 1990s. When Nakajima recorded the Ima no Kimochi album that were constituted by new interpretations of the past materials in 2004, those two songs were picked out from Kansuigyo.
The album spent the number-one spot on the Japanese Oricon chart for six-week, and became the country's best-selling LP of that year. It has also been her album that gained biggest commercial success to date, eventually selling about 770,000 units.
Track listing All songs written and composed by Miyuki Nakajima.
Side one All songs arranged by Nozomi Aoki (except "Bad Girl" and "The Incline" arranged by Tsugutoshi Goto) ""[Album Version] – 5:12 "" – 6:00 "" – 5:19 "" – 6:41
Side two All songs arranged by Nozomi Aoki (except "B.G.M." arranged by Masataka Matsutoya) "B.G.M." – 3:51 "" – 3:58 "" – 5:30 "" – 3:53 "" – 8:12
Personnel Band Miyuki Nakajima – vocals Masaki Matsubara – electric guitar Tsuyoshi Kon – electric guitar Fujimal Yoshino – electric guitar, acoustic guitar Chuei Yoshikawa – acoustic guitar Toishiaki Usui – acoustic guitar Nobuo Kurata – keyboards Hiroshi Shibui – keyboards Masataka Matsutoya – keyboards Tsugutoshi Goto – bass guitar Yasuo Tomikura – bass guitar Kenji Takamizu – bass guitar Akira Okazawa – bass guitar Michio Nagaoka – bass guitar Nobu Saito – percussion Minoru Ishiyama – percussion Motoya Hamaguchi – percussion Naoki Yamamoto – percussion Tatsuo Hayashi – drums Jun Morikawa – drums Yuichi Tokashiki – drums Hideo Yamaki – drums
Additional personnel Fujisawa Group – strings Tomato Strings Unsemble – strings Tomoda etc. – strings Yasuo Mito etc. – sStrings Isao Kaneyama – malimba, vibra glocken Masakazu Ishibashi – oboe Sakae Yamada etc. – horns Yasuo Hirauchi- trombone Isamu Mita- trombone Sumio Okada – trombone Eiji Arai – trombone Shuhei Hisayasu – tuba Keiko Yamakawa – harp Mikiko Imamichi – harp
Production Composer, writer, Producer and Performer: Miyuki Nakajima Arranger:Nozomi Aoki, Tsugutoshi Gotoh, Masataka Matsutoya Remix Engineer: Shozo Inomata Photographer and Art Director: Jin Tamura Designer: Hirofumi Arai Costume: Kazumi Yamase Artist Management: Hiroshi Kojima, Kunio Kaneko General Producer: Genichi Kawakami Special Thanks to Satoru Ide, Kaname Terazaki, Gil House People
Awards Japan Record AwardsYearTitleCategoryWinner1982 (24th)KansuigyoBest AlbumsMiyuki Nakajima'82 Albums Best 10
Chart positions YearAlbumCountryChartPositionWeeksSales1982KansuigyoJapanOricon Weekly LP Albums Chart (top 100)143773,000Oricon Weekly CT Albums Chart (top 100)131
Release history Country Date Label Format Catalog numberJapanMarch 21, 1982 Canyon Records LP C28A-0208 Pony Audio cassette 28P-6141 September 1, 1983 Canyon RecordsCD D35A-0008 November 5, 1986 D32A-0228 March 21, 1989 Pony Canyon D35A-0461 May 21, 1990 PCCA-00078 April 18, 2001 Yamaha Music Communications YCCW-00012 October 1, 2008 YCCW-10061
See also 1982 in Japanese music
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