| "Amagi-goe" | ||||
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| Single by Sayuri Ishikawa | ||||
| from the album Amagi-goe | ||||
| B-side | "Kakurenbo" | |||
| Released | July 21, 1986 | |||
| Genre | Kayōkyoku, Enka | |||
| Length | 4:56[1] | |||
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| Songwriter(s) | Osamu Yoshioka, Tetsuya Gen | |||
| Sayuri Ishikawa singles chronology | ||||
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"Amagi-goe" (天城越え Walk Over Amagi Pass) is the 45th single by Japanese singer Sayuri Ishikawa.[2] The song is written by Osamu Yoshioka as lyricist, Tetsuya Gen (弦哲也) as composer and Nobuyuki Sakuraba (桜庭伸幸) as arranger. The single was released on July 21, 1986, by Nippon Columbia. The sleeve does not have the time of the song.
Together with "Tsugaru Kaikyo Fuyu-geshiki", the song is Ishikawa's most popular from her career. By the song, Ishikawa was nominated for the 28th Japan Record Award in 1986 but she did not win the award.[3] As of 2023, Ishikawa has sung Amagi-goe thirteen times at the annual NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen.
There is a monument commemorating the song in front of the Jōren Falls in Amagi, Shizuoka Prefecture.
The song is not directly linked to the novella of the same title by Seichō Matsumoto nor to the movie of the same title based on the novella, which was released in 1983.[4]
- ^ Time of the re-recording of the song for a remix album. Sleeve of the original single does not have time of the song.
- ^ Nippon Columbia AH-755.
- ^ Arranger of the song Sakuraba won the Arranger Award of the Japan Record Award by Amagi-goe (Official web page for the 28th Japan Record Award Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine, viewed March 26, 2014).
- ^ Amagi-goe by Seichō Matsumoto