Kansuigyo

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)

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.

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

Additional personnel

Production

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). Retrieved 2008-01-24.
  2. ↑ "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) - Singles Chart Daijiten - 1982 Oricon Year-end Singles" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2008-01-24.
  3. ↑ "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) - Albums Chart Daijiten - 1982 Oricon Year-end Albums" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2008-01-24.
  4. 1 2 "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) - Albums Chart Daijiten - Miyuki Nakajima" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2008-01-24.
  5. ↑ Japan Composer's Association "History of the Japan Record Awards - List of the 24th Award Winners" Check |url= value (help) (in Japanese). Retrieved 2009-05-24.
Preceded by
Memorial by Masatoshi Nakamura
Seishun no Memoire by Hiroko Yakushimaru		 Japanese Oricon LP Chart number-one album (6 weeks)
March 29 - April 26, 1982
May 17, 1982 		Succeeded by
Seishun no Memoire by Hiroko Yakushimaru
Tug of War by Paul McCartney
Preceded by
Reflections by Akira Terao		 Japanese Oricon LP Chart biggest selling album of the year
1982 		Succeeded by
Flashdance by Various Artists (Soundtrack)
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