Ringetsu

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

Month of Parturition (臨月, Ringetsu^?) is the eighth studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Miyuki Nakajima, released in March 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^?)" – 4:12
5. "Yuki (雪^?)" – 4:55

Side two

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

Personnel

• Miyuki Nakajima - Vocals
• Masaki Matsubara - electric guitar
• Takashi Ozaki - electric guitar
• Ken Yashima - electric guitar
• Shigeru Suzuki - elecrtic guitar
• Kazuo Shiina - elecrtic 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 #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	Weeks	Sales
1981	Month of Parturition (Ringetsu)	Japan	Oricon Weekly LP Albums Chart (top 100)	1	48	590,000[3]
			Oricon Weekly CT Albums Chart (top 100)	1	33

Singles

Year	Single	B-Side	Chart	Position	Weeks	Sales
1980	"Hitori Jouzu"	"Kanashimi ni"	Japanese Oricon Weekly (top 100)	6	23	444,000[4]
1981	"Ashita Tenki ni Nare"	"Anzu Mura kara"		25	12	79,000[4]

References

1. ^ "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) - Albums Chart Daijiten - 1981 Oricon Year-end Albums" (in Japanese). http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~yamag/album/nenkan1981_a.html. Retrieved 2009-05-24. 
2. ^ Japan Composer's Association "History of the Japan Record Awards - List of the 23rd Award Winners" (in Japanese). http://www.jacompa.or.jp/rekishi/d1981.htm Japan Composer's Association. Retrieved 2009-05-24. 
3. ^ "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) - Albums Chart Daijiten - Miyuki Nakajima" (in Japanese). http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~yamag/album/al_nakajima.html. Retrieved 2009-05-24. 
4. ^ ^{a b} "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) - Singles Chart Daijiten - Miyuki Nakajima" (in Japanese). http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~yamag/single/nakajima.html. Retrieved 2008-01-24. 

Preceded by Thank Ai You by Masahiko Kondo

Japanese Oricon LP Chart number-one album March 23 - April 5, 1981 (2 weeks)

Succeeded by Heart and Soul by the Chanels