Kansuigyo

Kansuigyo (寒水魚) is the ninth studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Miyuki Nakajima, released in March 1982. The term ”Kansuigyo", which means opposite of "Nettaigyo" (熱帯魚, tropical fish), is Nakajima's neologism.

Kansuigyo
Studio album by Miyuki Nakajima
Released	March 21, 1982
Recorded	Hitokuchizaka and Epicurus Studios
Genre	Folk / Kayōkyoku
Length	48:28
Label	Canyon Records/AARD-VARK
Producer	Miyuki Nakajima
Miyuki Nakajima chronology
Month of Parturition (Ringetsu) (1981) Kansuigyo (1982) Hunch (Yokan) (1983)

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.[1] The song became one of the most commercially successful single of that year, reaching the top-10 on the year-end chart of 1982.[2] 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.[3] It has also been her album that gained biggest commercial success to date, eventually selling about 770,000 units.[4]

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)

1. "Bad Girl (悪女, Akujo)"[Album Version] – 5:12
2. "The Incline (傾斜, Keisha)" – 6:00
3. "Tori ni Natte (鳥になって)" – 5:19
4. "Suteruhodo no Ai de Iikara (捨てるほどの愛でいいから)" – 6:41

Side two

All songs arranged by Nozomi Aoki (except "B.G.M." arranged by Masataka Matsutoya)

1. "B.G.M." – 3:51
2. "Iede (家出)" – 3:58
3. "Jikokuhyou (時刻表)" – 5:30
4. "Suna no Fune (砂の船)" – 3:53
5. "Diva (歌姫, Utahime)" – 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 Awards
Year	Title	Category	Winner
1982 (24th)	Kansuigyo[5]	Best Albums	Miyuki Nakajima
		'82 Albums Best 10

Chart positions

Year	Album	Country	Chart	Position	Weeks	Sales
1982	Kansuigyo	Japan	Oricon Weekly LP Albums Chart (top 100)	1	43	773,000[4]
			Oricon Weekly CT Albums Chart (top 100)	1	31

Release history

Country	Date	Label	Format	Catalog number
Japan	March 21, 1982	Canyon Records	LP	C28A-0208
		Pony	Audio cassette	28P-6141
	September 1, 1983	Canyon Records	CD	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

References

1. "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) - Singles Chart Daijiten - Miyuki Nakajima" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2007-06-19. Retrieved 2008-01-24.
2. "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) - Singles Chart Daijiten - 1982 Oricon Year-end Singles" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2007-11-15. Retrieved 2008-01-24.
3. "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) - Albums Chart Daijiten - 1982 Oricon Year-end Albums" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2007-11-15. Retrieved 2008-01-24.
4. "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) - Albums Chart Daijiten - Miyuki Nakajima" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2007-06-19. Retrieved 2008-01-24.
5. "History of the Japan Record Awards - List of the 24th Award Winners" (in Japanese). Archived from Japan Composer's Association the original Check |url= value (help) on 2008-06-11. Retrieved 2009-05-24.