| Kansuigyo | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Miyuki Nakajima |
| Cover: | Kansuigyo.jpg |
| Released: | March 21, 1982 |
| Recorded: | Hitokuchizaka and Epicurus Studios |
| Genre: | Folk / Kayōkyoku |
| Length: | 48:28 |
| Label: | Canyon Records/AARD-VARK |
| Producer: | Miyuki Nakajima |
| Prev Title: | Month of Parturition (Ringetsu) |
| Prev Year: | 1981 |
| Next Title: | Hunch (Yokan) |
| Next Year: | 1983 |
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.[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]
All songs written and composed by Miyuki Nakajima.
All songs arranged by Nozomi Aoki (except "Bad Girl" and "The Incline" arranged by Tsugutoshi Goto)
All songs arranged by Nozomi Aoki (except "B.G.M." arranged by Masataka Matsutoya)
| Japan Record Awards | |||
| Year | Title | Category | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 (24th) | Kansuigyo[5] | Best Albums | Miyuki Nakajima |
| '82 Albums Best 10 | |||
| Year | Album | Country | Chart | Position | Weeks | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Kansuigyo | Japan | Oricon Weekly LP Albums Chart (top 100) | 1 | 43 | 773,000 |
| Oricon Weekly CT Albums Chart (top 100) | 1 | 31 |
| 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 |