NAOTORA Ongaku Tora no maki Niitora / NHK大河ドラマ おんな城主 直虎 音楽虎の巻 ニィトラ / NHK Taiga Drama "Onna Joshu Naotora" Ongaku Tora no Maki Niitora

Music: Yoko Kanno

All Music Composed, Arranged and Produced by Yoko Kanno

Voice of Naotora: KO SHIBASAKI (Track 1)
Voice of Naotora (Child): MIU ARAI (Track 1)
Buddhist Chant: Shinsuke Hosokawa (Ryuuunji Temple), Tatsuya Kondo, Hiroki Sakimoto (Track 1)

*Ko Shibasaki by the courtesy of Victor Entertainment

MIDORI, Violin (Tracks 7,15,22)

LANG LANG, Piano (Track 24)
PAAVO JÄRVI, Conductor (Track 24)
NHK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, TOKYO (Track 24)
Nyankei: Chibi (Special Appearance Track 24)

*Lang Lang appears courtesy of Sony Classical, a division of Sony Music Entertainment

Kaeko Mukoyama Strings (Cello Solo: Kaeko Mukoyama)
Concertmaster: Masahiro Morita
Violin I: Rintaro Omiya, Tsutomu Yamagishi, Yutaka Tanaka, Toshihiko Sakai, Kyoko Une, Tamaki Kobayashi, Takao Furihata, Nana Miyagawa, Toshihiro Takai
Violin II: Nobuko Obayashi, Akiko Tanaka, Kenji Matano, Toshiyuki Kimata, Haruhiko Mimata, Yosuke Niwa, Masamichi Yokoshima
Violin I & II: Yuki Naoi, Koichi Yokomizo
Viola: Hiroto Tobisawa, Ryo Muramatsu, Gentaro Sakaguchi, Hironori Nakamura, Mayumi Taniguchi, Maiko Takimoto
Cello: Kaeko Mukoyama, Shunsuke Yamanouchi, Hiroya Ichi, Kenichi Nishiyama, Erika Makioka
Contrabass: Masanori Ichikawa, Eiji Inagawa, Yoko Yanai

Koichiro Muroya Strings
Concertmaster: Koichiro Muroya
Violin: Mariko Aikawa, Kyoko Ishigame, Aya Ito, Hanako Uesato, Yuichi Endo, Shoko Oki, Rina Odera, Shizuka Kawaguchi, Eaisung Shin, Tomomi Tokunaga, Mika Naramura, Ayaka Notomi, Takashi Hamano, Birman Sohei, Ado Matsumoto, Yuya Yanagihara, Koichi Yokomizo
Viola: Shoko Mabuchi, Gentaro Sakaguchi, Saori Oka, Mikiyo Kikuchi, Tomoko Shimaoka, Yuri Matsumoto
Cello: Masami Horisawa, Takayoshi Okuizumi, Yuki Shinozaki, Masaru Tamagawa, Yoshito Omiya
Contrabass: Kazuhiro Tanabe, Ippei Kitamura, Hirofumi Taniguchi

Rintaro Omiya Strings
Concertmaster: Rintaro Omiya
Violin I: Hiroyuki Matsuda, Yuki Naoi, Nana Miyagawa
Violin II: Haruhiko Mimata, Koichi Yokomizo, Masamichi Yokoshima
Viola: Gentaro Sakaguchi, Yuya Minorikawa
Cello: Shunsuke Yamanouchi, Hiroya Ichi
Contrabass: Jun Okamoto

Harp: Risako Hayakawa, Rino Kageyama
Percussion: Hideki Ikegami, Ryoichi Kayatani
Flute, Piccolo: Junichiro Taku, Kazuhiro Kajiwara
Oboe: Bunkichi Arakawa, Kanami Araki
Clarinet: Kei Ito, Kimie Shigematsu, Hidehito Naka, Daisuke Katsuyama
Fagotto: Toshitsugu Inoue
Contra Fagotto: Masamichi Sasazaki
Horn: Hitoshi Imai, Nobuaki Fukukawa, Naoki Ishiyama, Yasushi Katsumata, Shigeaki Hisanaga, Yoshiyuki Uema, Hirofumi Wada, Kazuko Nomiyama, Shunsuke Kimura, Yusuke Saito, Yu Sakuma
Trumpet: Tomonori Sato, Ottaviano Cristofoli, Kazuya Honma, Kenichi Tsujimoto, Tomoki Ando, Cheonho Yoon, Yasuhito Ota, Kenta Uruma
Trombone: Hikaru Koga, Shinsuke Torizuka, Koh Aoki, Izumi Nakanishi
Bass Trombone: Shunji Yamaguchi, Keiichiro Sato

Acoustic Guitar: Tsuneo Imahori
Percussion: Yoichi Okabe
Drums: Yasuo Sano
Zurna: Yasuhiro Kasamatsu
Ryuteki: Akinori Inaba
Taiko: Masaki Otawa

Chorus: The Little Singers of Tokyo

Synthesizer Manipulator: Keishi Urata
Synthesizer Programming: Yosuke Sugimoto
Piano & Keyboards: Yoko Kanno
Conducted by: Yoko Kanno

Recording & Mixing Engineer: Tetsuya Hasue
Recording & Mixing Engineer: Masashi Yabuhara
Mixing Engineer: Koji Suzuki
Assistant Engineers: Yoshiharu Moriyama, Hiroki Soshi
Studio: NHK CR-506, 509, 604 Studio, NHK Publishing UDAGAWA Studio, Sony Music Studios Tokyo
Piano Tuner: Hirobumi Ohashi (H. Matsuo Musical Instruments Co., Ltd.)
                   Morikado Kurokawa (H. Matsuo Musical Instruments Co., Ltd.)
Copyist: Ichiro Sasaki

Recording & Musician Coordinator: Noriko Sekiya (Face Music)
Music Production: Kazuki Nishi (Meow on the Bridge Inc.)

Artist Management of Lang Lang: Jean-Jacques Cesbron (CAMI Music, LLC)
Artist Management of Paavo Järvi: Jennifer Spencer (HarrisonParrott Ltd)
Artist Management of Midori: OFFICE GOTO CO., LTD.

Mastering Engineer: Ted Jensen (STERLING SOUND)
Mastering Coordinator: Tsuyoshi Niwa (STERLING SOUND)

Art Director: Haruka Furuya
Designer: Megumi Nakazato (meeeg)

Plant supervision: Seijun Nishihata (SORA BOTANICAL GARDEN project)
Jacket Coordination: Fumiya Inada (EPOCH Inc.)
Jacket Production Manager: Shougo Minowa (EPOCH Inc.)

A&R/Product Manager: Tetsushi Koyama (Sony Music Japan International)
Product Coordination: Tomohiro Ijiri (Sony Music Communications Inc.)
Coordination: Yoshiko Takamiya (Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.)
Business Affairs: Mako Shibayama (Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.)
                         Suguru Oike (Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.)
                         Ayumi Munehiro (Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.)
Sales Promotion: Tomohiko Yoshida (Sony Music Marketing Inc.)
Digital Marketing: Naomi Yamada (Sony Music Marketing Inc.), Hidaka, Ryo (Sony Music Marketing Inc.)

Executive Producers: Hiroshi Ueda (NHK Publishing)
                               Nobu Nakatake (Sony Music Japan International)
                               Tetsuya Shiroki (Sony Music Japan International)

Special Thanks to
Muse.K, Takeshi Kikuchi (Victor Entertainment), Bogdan Roscic (Sony Classical International), Mark Cavell (Sony Classical International), Beth Miller (Sony Masterworks), Masahide Kajimoto (KAJIMOTO), Maki Takemitsu (KAJIMOTO), Nathan Matsuzaki (KAJIMOTO), Aurélie Abdeldjebar (KAJIMOTO), Mika Ito (KAJIMOTO), Ryusuke Kozawa (Sony Music Japan International), Motoichi Sugita (Sony Music Japan International), Akiko Ozawa (Sony Music Entertainment NY Office), Satoshi Uto (Sony Music Entertainment NY Office), TranTomo (Sony Music Entertainment NY Office)