is the eighth studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter

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, released in March 1981. The album features "Hitori Jouzu", a song released as a

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in October 1980 and became her second top-ten hit on the Japanese Oricon (since her 1977 chart-topper "

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"). ''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

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s for "Album Best 10", a category acclaimed the ten most magnificent long-playing records. Along with a follow-up ''

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'' 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

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 *

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– bass guitar * Michio Nagaoka – bass guitar * Kenji Takamizu – bass guitar * Ryoichi Akimoto – bass guitar * Masataka Matsutoya –

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* 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),

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(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:

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**Special Thanks to Gil House People **Mixed and Mastered at the Hitokuchizaka SIudio, Tokyo, Japan

Track listing

Side one

Side two

Personnel

Production

Awards

Chart positions

Album

Singles

References