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is a seventh studio album by a Japanese singer-songwriter Miyuki Nakajima
Miyuki Nakajima
is a Japanese vocalist, guitarist, lyricist, composer and radio personality. As a principal Japanese female veteran singer-songwriter she is often compared to Yumi Matsutoya, she has released 37 studio albums, 40 singles, 2 live albums and multiple compilations to date, and whose sales have been...

, released in April 1980.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Miyuki Nakajima, except an untitled interlude composed by Tsugutoshi Goto.

Side one

All songs arranged by Tsugutoshi Goto, except "Sobaya" co-arranged by Miyuki Nakajima
  1. "" – 7:27
  2. "" – 4:54
  3. "" – 4:08
  4. "" – 5:09

Side two

All songs arranged by Tsugutoshi Goto, except "Ikoku" co-arranged by Miyuki Nakajima
  1. "" – 5:12
  2. Untitled – 1:10
  3. "" – 7:44
  4. "" – 9:12

Personnel

  • Miyuki Nakajima - vocals, acoustic guitar
    Acoustic guitar
    An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...

  • Takahiko Ishikawa - acoustic guitar, flat mandolin
  • Shigeru Suzuki - electric guitar
  • Tsugutoshi Goto - electric bass
  • Makiko Tashiro - keyboards
  • Akira Nishimoto - keyboards
  • Fumihiko Kazama - accordion
    Accordion
    The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....

  • Nobuo Yagi - harmonica
  • Shin Kazuhara - piccolo trumpet
  • Yukio Eto - flute, alto flute, bass flute
  • Minoru Muraoka - shakuhachi
    Shakuhachi
    The is a Japanese end-blown flute. It is traditionally made of bamboo, but versions now exist in ABS and hardwoods. It was used by the monks of the Fuke school of Zen Buddhism in the practice of...

  • Rien Takimoto - drums
  • Hiro Tsunoda - drums
  • Yas-Kaz Sato - latin percussions
  • Yoshihisa Tamano - violin
  • Joe Ensemble - strings

Chart positions

Year Country Chart Position Weeks Sales
1980 Japan Oricon Weekly LP Albums Chart (top 100) 1 27 330,000
Oricon Weekly CT Albums Chart (top 100) 1 20

Release history

Country Date Format Label Catalog number
Japan April 5, 1980 LP
LP album
The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...

Canyon Records C25A-0089
Audio cassette Pony 25P-7117
March 1, 1981 LP
LP album
The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...

Canyon Records C28A-0149
May 21, 1981 Audio cassette Pony 28P-6072
September 1, 1983 CD Canyon Records D35A-0018
November 5, 1986 D32A-0230
March 21, 1989 Pony Canyon D35A-0459
May 21, 1990 PCCA-00076
April 18, 2001 Yamaha Music Communications YCCW-00010
October 1, 2008 YCCW-10059
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