Ringetsu Explained
| Month of Parturition (Ringetsu) |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Miyuki Nakajima |
| Cover: | Ringetsu album cover.jpg |
| 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 |
| Prev Title: | Ikiteitemo Iidesuka |
| Prev Year: | 1980 |
| Next Title: | Kansuigyo |
| Next Year: | 1982 |
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
- "" – 3:19
- "" – 5:42
- "" – 5:13
- "" – 4:12
- "" – 4:55
Side two
- "" – 4:18
- "" – 6:56
- "" – 4:06
- "" – 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 | 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 | |
Notes and References
- Web site: Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) – Albums Chart Daijiten – 1981 Oricon Year-end Albums. Japanese. May 24, 2009. dead. https://archive.today/20071115021311/http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~yamag/album/nenkan1981_a.html. November 15, 2007.
- Web site: Japan Composer's Association History of the Japan Record Awards – List of the 23rd Award Winners. Japanese. May 24, 2009. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120213114532/http://www.jacompa.or.jp/rekishi/d1981.htm. February 13, 2012.
- Web site: Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) – Albums Chart Daijiten – Miyuki Nakajima. Japanese. May 24, 2009. dead. https://archive.today/20070619175006/http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~yamag/album/al_nakajima.html. June 19, 2007.
- Web site: Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) – Singles Chart Daijiten – Miyuki Nakajima. Japanese. January 24, 2008. dead. https://archive.today/20070619175006/http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~yamag/single/nakajima.html. June 19, 2007.
