Ringetsu

Month of Parturition (臨月, Ringetsu) is the eighth studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Miyuki Nakajima, released in March 1981.

Month of Parturition (Ringetsu)
Studio album by Miyuki Nakajima
Released	March 5, 1981
Recorded	Epicurus Studio, Hitokuchizaka Studio, Media Studio
Genre	J-pop (folk, kayokyoku)
Length	45:29
Label	Canyon/AARD-VARK
Producer	Miyuki Nakajima
Miyuki Nakajima chronology
Ikiteitemo Iidesuka (1980) Month of Parturition (Ringetsu) (1981) Kansuigyo (1982)
Singles from Month of Parturition (Ringetsu)
"Hitori Jouzu" Released: October 21, 1980 "Ashita Tenki ni Nare" Released: March 21, 1981

The album features "Hitori Jouzu", a song released as a lead single in October 1980 and became her second top-ten hit on the Japanese Oricon (since her 1977 chart-topper "The Parting Song").

Month of Parturition topped the Japanese albums chart for two weeks, and marked the number-six on the country's year-end chart of 1981.^[1] Also in December 1981, the album received honor of winning the 23rd Japan Record Awards for "Album Best 10", a category acclaimed the ten most magnificent long-playing records.

Along with a follow-up Kansuigyo released in the following year, Month of Parturition has been one of her best-selling non-compilation albums to date, selling over 590,000 copies.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Miyuki Nakajima.

Side one

1. "Ashita Tenki ni Nare (あした天気になれ)" – 3:19
2. "Anata ga Umi wo Miteiru Uchi ni (あなたが海を見ているうちに)" – 5:42
3. "Self Portrait in Two Mirrors (あわせ鏡, Awase Kagami)" – 5:13
4. "Hitori Jouzu (ひとり上手( lit., Having Been Accustomed to Solitude))" – 4:12
5. "Snow (雪, Yuki)" – 4:55

Side two

1. "Bus Dōri (バス通り, Basu Dōri)" – 4:18
2. "Friendship (友情, Yūjou)" – 6:56
3. "Seijin Sedai (成人世代)" – 4:06
4. "Nocturne (夜曲, Yakyoku)" – 6:48

Personnel

• Miyuki Nakajima – Vocals
• Masaki Matsubara – electric guitar
• Takashi Ozaki – electric guitar
• Ken Yashima – electric guitar
• Shigeru Suzuki – electric guitar
• Kazuo Shiina – electric guitar
• Chuei Yoshikawa – acoustic guitar
• Hiromi Yasuda – acoustic guitar
• Tsugutoshi Goto – bass guitar
• Michio Nagaoka – bass guitar
• Kenji Takamizu – bass guitar
• Ryoichi Akimoto – bass guitar
• Masataka Matsutoya – keyboards
• Haruo Togashi – keyboards
• Yasuharu Nakanishi – keyboards
• Maki Tashiro – keyboards
• Izumi Kobayashi – keyboards
• Nobu Saito – percussion
• Motoya Hamaguchi – percussion
• Yuki Sugawara – percussion
• Nobuo Yagi – harmonica
• Keiko Yamakawa – harp
• Jake H Conception – saxophone
• Eiji Shimamura – drums
• Yuichi Tokashiki – drums
• Tatsuo Hayashi – drums
• Yutaka Uehara – drums

Production

• Performer, composer, lyricist, producer: Miyuki Nakajima
• Arranger: Katz Hoshi (Side one #1 / Side two #3), Hiromi Yasuda (Side one #2), Masataka Matsutoya (Side one No. 3 / Side two #2,4), Mitsuo Hagita (Side one #4,5 / Side two #1)
• Recording director: Yoshio Okujima
• Director: YūZō Watanabe
• Mixing and mastering engineer: Katsuya Kuroda
• Assistant engineer: Bill Takahashi
• Photographer, art director: Jin Tamura
• Designer: Hirofumi Arai
• Management for the artist: Hiroshi Kojima, Kunio Kaneko
• Executive producer: Genichi Kawakami
  • Special Thanks to Gil House People
  • Mixed and Mastered at the Hitokuchizaka SIudio, Tokyo, Japan

Awards

Japan Record Awards
Year	Title	Category	Winner
1981 (23rd)	Month of Parturition (Ringetsu)[2]	Best 10 Albums	Miyuki Nakajima

Chart positions

Album

Year	Album	Country	Chart	Position	Sales
1981	Month of Parturition (Ringetsu)	Japan	Oricon Weekly LP Albums Chart (top 100)	1	590,000[3]
			Oricon Weekly CT Albums Chart (top 100)	1

Singles

Year	Single	B-Side	Chart	Position	Sales
1980	"Hitori Jouzu"	"Kanashimi ni"	Japanese Oricon Weekly (top 100)	6	444,000[4]
1981	"Ashita Tenki ni Nare"	"Anzu Mura kara"		25	79,000[4]

See also

• 1981 in Japanese music