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Otogibanashi: Fairy Ring

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{{Infobox album

| name = Otogibanashi -Fairy Ring-

| type = Album

| artist = Miyuki Nakajima

| cover = FairyRingCover.jpg

| alt =

| released = October 23, 2002

| recorded = Cello Studios, O'Henry Sound Studios, and Epicurus

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Folk rock, kayōkyoku

| length = 58:07

| label = Yamaha Music Communications

| producer = Ichizo Seo, Miyuki Nakajima

| prev_title = Singles 2000

| prev_year = 2002

| next_title = Love Letter

| next_year = 2003

}}

{{nihongo|Otogibanashi|おとぎばなし}} (subtitled "Fairy Ring") is the 30th studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Miyuki Nakajima, released in October 2002. Like some efforts such as Jidai: Time Goes Around, it mainly consists of her compositions which had previously interpreted by other singers, or performed on the series of her musicals Yakai.

Nakajima had a duet with Masashi Sada on "You Reminds Me of...", a song they wrote for Ken Takakura and Nae Yuki in 1994.{{cite web|url=http://www.sanspo.com/geino/top/gt200210/gt2002101602.html|title= Miyuki Nakajima and Masashi Sada have a duet for the first time|language=ja|work=sanspo.com|publisher=Sankei Shimbun Co., Ltd.|access-date=May 21, 2009|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20030628001749/http://www.sanspo.com/geino/top/gt200210/gt2002101602.html|archive-date= June 28, 2003}}

Track listing

All songs written by Miyuki Nakajima (unless otherwise noted), arranged by Ichizo Seo.

  1. "{{nihongo|Hitsumugiuta|陽紡ぎ唄|Song of Elves Spinning Sunrays}}" – 4:05
  2. "{{nihongo|Shangri-La|シャングリラ|Shangurira}}" – 4:54
  3. "{{nihongo|Fairy Tale|おとぎばなし|Otogi Banashi}}" – 4:57
  4. "{{nihongo|The Snow, the Moon and the Flowers|雪･月･花|Setsu Getsu Ka}}" – 4:46
  5. Medley: "{{nihongo|Fragrant Glass from the Distant Past|匂いガラス|Nioi Garasu}}"/"{{nihongo|Yasuko's Shoes|安寿子の靴|Yasuko no Kutsu}}" (Nakajima/Juro Kara) – 5:35
  6. "{{nihongo|You Remind Me of...|あの人に似ている|Ano Hito ni Niteiru}}" (Masashi Sada/Nakajima) – 6:45
  7. "{{nihongo|The Ugly Duckling|みにくいアヒルの子|Minikui Ahiru no Ko}}" – 5:06
  8. "{{nihongo|Loved Flower, Unloved Flower|愛される花、愛されぬ花|Aisareru Hana, Aisarenu Hana}}" – 4:00
  9. "{{nihongo|The Clawless Lion|裸爪のライオン|Hadashi no Raion}}" (Tsugutoshi Goto/Nakajima) – 5:40
  10. "{{nihongo|Jacaranda (Purple Sakura)|紫の桜|Murasaki no Sakura}}" – 6:24
  11. "{{nihongo|Sea!|海よ|Umi yo}}" – 6:05

Personnel

  • Miyuki Nakajima – Vocals
  • Masashi Sada – Vocals
  • Michael Thompson – Electric guitar, nylon guitar
  • Masayoshi Furukawa – Electric guitar
  • Song Rui – Electric guitar
  • Dean Parks – Mandocello, acoustic guitar, bouzouki, flat mandolin
  • Tim Pierce – Flat mandolin
  • Jia Pengfang – Erhu
  • Neil Stubenhaus – Electric bass
  • Reggie Hamilton – Bass
  • Vinnie Colaiuta – Drums
  • Yūta Saito – Keyboards
  • Elton Nagata – Keyboards
  • Jon Gilutin – Keyboards, acoustic piano, electric piano, yangqin, pad
  • Shingo Kobayashi – Keyboards, drums programming
  • Ichizo Seo – Keyboards
  • Yousuke Sugimoto – Synth programming, percussion loop
  • Keishi Urata – Drums programming, percussion loop, synth programming
  • Tomo'o Sato – Drums programming, synth programming, acoustic guitar
  • Yoshiaki Sato – Accordion
  • Dan Higgins – Tenor sax
  • Stephanie Bennett – Irish harp
  • John Clarke – Penny whistle
  • Julia Waters – Backing vocals
  • Maxine Waters – Backing vocals
  • Oren Waters – Backing vocals
  • Kazuyo Sugimoto – Backing vocals
  • People of Yamaha Music Foundation – Chorus
  • Suzie Katayama – Strings conductor
  • Sid Page – Violin (Concertmaster)
  • Charlie Bisharat – Violin
  • Joel Derouin – Violin
  • Norm Hughes – Violin
  • Beri Garabedian – Violin
  • Peter Kent – Violin
  • Susan Chatman – Violin
  • John Wittenberg – Violin
  • Amen Garabedian – Violin
  • Mark Robertson – Violin
  • Carole Mukogawa – Viola
  • Damin MaCamn – Viola
  • Dan Smith – Cello
  • Stefanie Fife – Cello
  • Tomoyuki Asagawa – Harp

Chart positions

class="wikitable"

!Year

!Album

!Chart

!Position

!Weeks

!Sales

2002–03

|Otogibanashi -Fairy Ring-

|Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (Top 300)

|5

|12

|78,000+{{cite web|url=http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~yamag/album/al_nakajima.html|title=Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) – Albums Chart Daijiten – Miyuki Nakajima|language=ja|access-date=January 24, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20070619175006/http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~yamag/album/al_nakajima.html|archive-date=June 19, 2007}}

Release history

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! Country

! Date

! Label

! Format

! Catalog number

rowspan="2"|Japan

| October 23, 2002

| rowspan="2"| Yamaha Music Communications

| rowspan="2"|CD

| YCCW-00039

December 3, 2008

| YCCW-10082

References

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{{Miyuki Nakajima}}

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