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Month of Parturition (臨月) 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. 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)" – 5:13
 * 4) "Hitori Jouzu (ひとり上手( lit., Having Been Accustomed to Solitude))" – 4:12
 * 5) "Snow (雪)" – 4:55

Side two

 * 1) "Bus Dōri (バス通り)" – 4:18
 * 2) "Friendship (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 – 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