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

Music: Yoko Kanno

All Music Composed, Arranged and Produced by Yoko Kanno

Vocal: Ko Shibasaki (Track 19)

MIDORI, Violin (Track 16)

LANG LANG, Piano (Track 21)
PAAVO JÄRVI, Conductor (Track 21)
NHK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, TOKYO (Track 21)

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

Kaeko Mukoyama Strings
Concertmaster: Masahiro Morita
Violin II top: Nobuko Obayashi
Violin: Rintaro Omiya, Tsutomu Yamagishi, Yutaka Tanaka, Toshihiko Sakai, Kyoko Une, Toshihiro Takai, Yuki Naoi, Koichi Yokomizo, Kenji Matano, Haruhiko Mimata, Toshiyuki Kimata, Masamichi Yokoshima, Takao Furihata, Nana Miyagawa, Yosuke Niwa, Keiko Shimada, Asa Nakajima, Yuya Mishima
Viola top: Hiroto Tobisawa
Viola: Ryo Muramatsu, Hironori Nakamura, Mayumi Taniguchi, Maiko Takimoto
Cello top: Kaeko Mukoyama
Cello: Shunsuke Yamanouchi, Hiroya Ichi, Kenichi Nishiyama, Erika Makioka, Yukinori Kobatake
Contrabass top: Masanori Ichikawa
Contrabass: Eiji Inagawa, Yoko Yanai

Harp: Risako Hayakawa, Tomoyuki Asakawa, Rino Kageyama
Percussion: Hideki Ikegami
Flute: Junichiro Taku
Oboe & English horn: Kanami Araki
Oboe: Bunkichi Arakawa
Clarinet: Kei Ito, Hidehito Naka
Fagotto: Toshitsugu Inoue
Contra Fagotto: Masamichi Sasazaki, Takao Kogo
Horn: Hitoshi Imai, Nobuaki Fukukawa, Yoshiyuki Uema, Naoki Ishiyama, Yasushi Katsumata, Shigeaki Hisanaga, Hiroshi Kigawa, Kazuko Nomiyama, Yusuke Saito, Yu Sakuma, Yu Suzuki, Kazune Fukae
Tumpet: Tomonori Sato, Ottaviano Cristofoli, Kazuya Honma, Tomoyuki Hasegawa, Kenichi Tsujimoto, Tomoki Ando, Akihiko Ikawa, Moe Matsuyama, Kenta Uruma
Trombone: Hikaru Koga, Ko Ikegami, Koh Aoki, Shohei Matsubara, Kohei Yamada
Tuba: Yukihiro Ikeda
Percussion: Mataro, Yoichi Okabe
Guitar: Tsuneo Imahori
Viola Solo: Yu Manabe
Alto Saxophone: Nobuya Sugawa

Didgeridoo: Andy Bevan
Zampoña: Takamasa Segi
Ryuteki, Takebue: Akinori Inaba
Shakuhachi: Hiromu Motonaga

Voice: Sizzle Ohtaka (Track 14)

Synthesizer Manipulator: Keishi Urata, Yasuo Kimoto
Synthesizer Programming: Yasuo Kimoto, 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 & Mixing Coordinator: Noriko Sekiya (Face Music)
Music Production: Kazuki Nishi (Meow on the Bridge Inc.)

Artist Management of Ko Shibasaki: Yu Yamashita (STARDUST PROMTION, 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: Koji Suzuki (Sony Music Studios Tokyo)

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: Mirei Teramura (Sony Music Marketing Inc.)
Digital Marketing: Shiho Ohyama (Sony Music Marketing Inc.), Shoko Tanaka (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, 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)