is the ninth studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter

Miyuki Nakajima (born February 23, 1952, Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan) is a Japanese singer-songwriter and radio personality. She has released 43 studio albums, 46 singles, 6 live albums and multiple compilations as of January 2020. Her sales have been estimated ...

, 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,

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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

Side one

All songs arranged by Nozomi Aoki (except "Bad Girl" and "The Incline" arranged by Tsugutoshi Goto) #"" lbum 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 The oboe ( ) is a type of double reed woodwind instrument. Oboes are usually made of wood, but may also be made of synthetic materials, such as plastic, resin, or hybrid composites. The most common oboe plays in the treble or soprano range. ...

* Sakae Yamada etc. – horns * Yasuo Hirauchi-

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate ...

* Isamu Mita- trombone * Sumio Okada – trombone * Eiji Arai – trombone * Shuhei Hisayasu –

tuba The tuba (; ) is the lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, the sound is produced by lip vibrationa buzzinto a mouthpiece. It first appeared in the mid-19th century, making it one of the ne ...

* 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:

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Track listing

Side one

Side two

Personnel

Band

Additional personnel

Production

Awards

Chart positions

Release history

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