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Shizuka Miura (三浦 静香) was a Japanese ball-jointed doll maker, singer, songwriter, and guitarist. She, having first been a protégée of Katan Amano, was well known in Japan for her doll work. Worldwide, Shizuka is best known for having been the permanent vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Shizuka (静香), which she founded with musician Maki Miura, her then-husband.

In c. 1992, Shizuka started her musical career by adapting some of her poetry into songs. Her first known musical performance was at 20000V (a live venue in Tokyo) on 21 November 1992. It was posteriorly released in a C54 self-titled compact cassette with a total of five tracks. Other three cassette tapes were also released under the title 静香 (Shizuka), most of them had portraits of Shizuka as their cover art. With the band, she has worked on the release of a studio album, three live albums,   and three video albums,   besides having made live performances in Japan and in the United States.

Musically, her vocals were often ethereal, reverberated, slow and tremulous, characteristics which expressed or suggested, among other things, sadness, a sense of "haunting" and a "gothic atmosthere".

On c. 31 January 2010, she died by suicide. Medication was pointed out by Mason Jones on his blog as one of the possible methods or risk factors, but it remains unknown. Late on 25 April, a DVD-Video album was released by PSF Records as a visual tribute to Shizuka, which contains one of the last live performances by her group recorded at ShowBoat (a Tokyo live venue) on 30 December 2008.

Biography
Shizuka Miura, having first been a protégée of doll master Katan Amano, was a recognized ball-jointed doll author in Japan. She kept some of her dolls in the apartment where she lived with Maki Miura, her then-husband. Mason Jones comments on his visit to Shizuka and Maki:

It's also known that Shizuka wrote poetry, although it's unknown if she ever published them in formats other than music.