Ringetsu

Month of Parturition (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
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

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

Side two

"Bus Dōri (バス通り, Basu Dōri)" – 4:18
"Friendship (友情, Yūjou)" – 6:56
"Seijin Sedai (成人世代)" – 4:06
"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

Year	Title	Category	Winner
Japan Record Awards
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]
1981	Month of Parturition (Ringetsu)	Japan	Oricon Weekly CT Albums Chart (top 100)	1	33	590,000^[3]

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"	Japanese Oricon Weekly (top 100)	25	12	79,000^[4]

References

^ "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) – Albums Chart Daijiten – 1981 Oricon Year-end Albums" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on November 15, 2007. Retrieved May 24, 2009.
^ "History of the Japan Record Awards – List of the 23rd Award Winners" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on February 13, 2012. Retrieved May 24, 2009.
^ "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) – Albums Chart Daijiten – Miyuki Nakajima" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on June 19, 2007. Retrieved May 24, 2009.
^ ^a ^b "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) – Singles Chart Daijiten – Miyuki Nakajima" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on June 19, 2007. Retrieved January 24, 2008.

[LPyearend-1] "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) – Albums Chart Daijiten – 1981 Oricon Year-end Albums" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on November 15, 2007. Retrieved May 24, 2009.

[23rt-2] "History of the Japan Record Awards – List of the 23rd Award Winners" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on February 13, 2012. Retrieved May 24, 2009.

[NakajimaLP-3] "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) – Albums Chart Daijiten – Miyuki Nakajima" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on June 19, 2007. Retrieved May 24, 2009.

[NakajimaEP-4] "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) – Singles Chart Daijiten – Miyuki Nakajima" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on June 19, 2007. Retrieved January 24, 2008.

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