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), 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)
 * 1) "Bad Girl (悪女)"[Album Version] – 5:12
 * 2) "The Incline (傾斜)" – 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)" – 8:12

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