美しさとは何か
What is beauty
美しさとは何か
Cherry blossoms falling (Falling)
Beautiful because they die (They die)
Blade catching the moonlight (Moonlight)
Beautiful against the sky (The sky)
I was told that beauty (Beauty)
Lives in what is brief (Is brief)
Everything that's precious (Precious)
Balanced on the edge of grief (Of grief)
You call the blade beautiful
I call it what it is
A tool that ends the story
Of everything that lives
Beauty is a trick now
The living tell themselves
To make the short time sweeter
Before it overwhelms
What is beauty
散るから美しい
What is beauty
終わるから輝く
The blade the blossom
刃も花も同じ
What is beauty
消えるものだけが美しい
But what about the moment (Moment)
When the blade first sings (First sings)
When the shamisen cuts through (Cuts through)
And the whole night rings (Night rings)
Is that not beautiful (Beautiful)
Even if it ends (If it ends)
Is the flash not worth it (Worth it)
Even if it bends (If it bends)
Now you ask the question
That I asked before I fell
The moment is the beauty
Not the story we tell
I searched for lasting beauty
Something permanent and true
The only thing I found was
The moment I had you
What is beauty
散るから美しい
What is beauty
終わるから輝く
The blade the blossom
刃も花も同じ
What is beauty
消えるものだけが美しい
The mission
The memory
The blade
The silence after
The shadow
The bones that remain
The moment
Yes
The moment
What is beauty
散るから美しい
What is beauty
終わるから輝く
The blade the blossom
刃も花も同じ
What is beauty
この瞬間だけが美しい
...this moment
...この瞬間
- Lyricist
KIRI
- Composer
KIRI
- Producer
KIRI
- Vocals
KIRI
Listen to What Is Beauty by KIRI
Streaming / Download
- 1
First Meeting
KIRI
- 2
Why Do You Fight
KIRI
- 3
I Was Like You
KIRI
- 4
Fear
KIRI
- ⚫︎
What Is Beauty
KIRI
- 6
The Mission
KIRI
- 7
Regret
KIRI
- 8
What Remains
KIRI
- 9
We Are The Same
KIRI
- 10
Farewell
KIRI
The Dialogue is the fourth album from KIRI,
a kunoichi warrior and Japanese trap artist
under Shinobi Sound.
Ten tracks. Ten conversations between the living and the dead.
KIRI encounters a skeleton warrior -
a figure who has witnessed every life,
every battle, every last breath.
What follows is not a fight.
It is a dialogue.
About why we fight. About what we fear.
About what remains when everything else is gone.
Blending Japanese trap, heavy 808 bass,
traditional instruments - shamisen, koto, shakuhachi, taiko -
with bilingual lyrics that move between English and Japanese,
The Dialogue is a meditation on life, death,
and the razor's edge between them.
From first meeting to farewell,
nothing is resolved easily.
But something is understood.
© 2026 KIRI / Shinobi Sound
Artist Profile
KIRI
KIRI is a Japanese AI music artist blending the deadly elegance of the kunoichi with modern Trap & Bass. Heavy shamisen, thundering taiko, and crushing 808 bass lines form the sonic world of Shinobi Sound, a place where shadow, blade, and silence converge. Born in darkness. Gone before you blink.
KIRIの他のリリース
Shinobi Sound
