is the 18th studio album by Japanese entertainer

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. Released through King Records on June 1, 1996, it features the singles " Thinking About You (Anata no Yoru wo Tsutsumitai)" and "

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. The album peaked at No. 13 on

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's albums chart and sold over 80,000 copies.

Track listing

Personnel

* Miho Nakayama – vocals *

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– piano (1, 4–5, 9) * Yoshimasa Inoue – piano (1), backing vocals (6–7) * Yoshihiro Tomonari – piano (3) * Hidetoshi Yamada – piano (6–7) * Daisaku Kume – piano (10) * Kazuo Ōtani – piano (11) *

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– synthesizer (1, 4, 9), cello (5) * Hiroshi Kitashiro – synthesizer (2) * Kanichirō Kubō – synthesizer (3) * Hideki Matsutake – synthesizer (6–7) * Hiroshi Shinkawa – synthesizer (8) * Keitarō Takanami – synthesizer (10) * Naoki Suzuki – synthesizer (11) * Toshiyuki Honma – electric piano (6–7) * Tsuneo Imahori – guitar (1, 9) * Masayoshi Furukawa – guitar (4) * Fujimaru Yoshino – guitar (6–7) * Masaki Matsubara – guitar (8) * Shigeharu Sasago – guitar (9) * Kazuhiko Obata – guitar (9) * Tenji Mitsuhata – guitar (11) * Masayuki Suzuki – bass (1, 10) * Kenji Takamizu – bass (4, 11) * Chiharu Mikuzuki – bass (6) * Hideo Watanabe – bass (9) * Nobuo Eguchi – drums (7) * Tōru Hasebe – drums (7) * Ikuo Kakehashi – percussion (1, 9), drums (4) * Tomo Yamaguchi – percussion (3) * Makoto Hirabara – saxophone (1) * Kazutoki Umezu – saxophone (3) * Jake H. Concepcion – saxophone (6) * Shinichirō Hikosaka – saxophone (9) * Katsuki Tochio – saxophone (9) * Sai Kakukawa – saxophone (9) * Yasushi Arai – saxophone (9) * Hideshi Toki – saxophone (11) * Shin Sugawara – trumpet (1) * Eijirō Nakagawa – trumpet (1) * Masatsugu Shinozaki Group – strings (1, 4–5, 9, 11) * Hiroyuki Koike Group – strings (6–7, 10) * Megumi Maruo – accordion (10) * Kōichirō Tashiro –

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(10) * Maria – backing vocals (4) * Naoki Takao – backing vocals (8, 11) * Kumi Sasaki – backing vocals (11)

Charts

References

External links

* * {{Authority control 1996 albums Miho Nakayama albums 1990s Japanese-language albums King Records (Japan) albums