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Month of Parturition 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.
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. 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" – 3:19
  2. "Anata ga Umi wo Miteiru Uchi ni" – 5:42
  3. "Self Portrait in Two Mirrors" – 5:13
  4. "Hitori Jouzu" – 4:12
  5. "Snow" – 4:55

    Side two

  6. "Bus Dōri" – 4:18
  7. "Friendship" – 6:56
  8. "Seijin Sedai" – 4:06
  9. "Nocturne" – 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, Hiromi Yasuda, Masataka Matsutoya, Mitsuo Hagita
  • 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

Chart positions

Album

Singles