1992–1994: Early years In circa 1992,
Shizuka Miura started making music with support from Maki Miura (a veteran musician and former member of
Fushitsusha With this formation and additionally bassist Tomoya Hirata, Shizuka performed at live house Manda-La2 in Tokyo on 8 November 1993. On 12 August 1994, they played at Japan's Studio AMS. Both performances were self-released in circa 1995 with the title . and dedicated to Japanese dollmaker . Reception-wise,
Mason Jones reviewed
Heavenly Persona as a "beautiful CD" and "very fine album", Also in 1995, Shizuka appeared in the compilation album of various artists
Tokyo Flashback 4, released by PSF Records. It is the album's sixth track, named . In the music production of this song, the band completed all the arrangement in a single-take, contrasting the group's usual creative process, which was to initially "listen to Shizuka singing the lyrics, jam together", and only then "arrange the song". For this piece, Shizuka Miura said she used texts from the Japanese epic poem
Hotsuma Tsutae as lyrics to complete the song. In 17 and 18 June 1995, Shizuka Miura and Maki Miura performed live with
Takashi Mizutani at Art Gallery Hasegawa, Tokyo. Shizuka released video recordings of this performance as .
1995–1997: Lineup changes, and American tour Maki Miura told that Shizuka's first bass player "couldn't keep up with" the band members' pace, having Maki himself to write the songs' bass lines. He also said that situation became a major problem for the band, since its members were "used to completing the arrangement in the [recording] studio". Sometime after the release of
Heavenly Persona in 1994, singer Shizuka, Maki, and Jun met Japanese musician Tetsuya Mugishima, also known as "Seven". Even though Seven originally was a guitarist, he was invited to be the bassist on Shizuka for his competency as a bass player and skills in composing bass lines. With Seven's joining, the band was formally established. The remaining show was at the La Mama venue in
Shibuya on 17 September 1995. After those three live shows, Seven, and soon afterwards Jun Kosugi, left the band On 22 April 1997, Shizuka's song was released in the compilation album
Land of the Rising Noise, 2 in the United States by independent record label Charnel Music, owned by Mason Jones. The cover art of this various artists album features a doll made by Shizuka Miura. In this way, Shizuka was scheduled to play at 19:30 on 25 April 2002 at the
Stirling Tolbooth music venue. There, they faced some problems: Maki had stomach related health issues; and immigration-wise to get into Scotland because Shizuka members' identities were under suspicion. Nevertheless, the band made it to the Tolbooth "with a last-minute appearance", and became the first artist to perform in the 2002 edition of that festival. In February 2018, the Bandcamp Daily published that Black Editions will reissue a remastered version of
Heavenly Persona, having been the music producer Kris Lapke "enlisted to remaster" it. In June 2021, French label An'archives released a new Shizuka live album titled == Musical style ==