When she was eight years old her teacher recommended that, having shown sufficient interest and talent, she started taking lessons from the renowned Japanese drummer and drum instructor Kozo Suganuma.

[10] Later that year, after starting junior high school, she began making appearances at a number of small venues, as Senri's Super Session with Akira Tanemura on guitar, Teruyuki Iwawaki on bass and Mayumi Yoshida on keyboard, and with whom she still performs;[11] and, between 2011 and 2014, as Senri's BeeHive Session at the BeeHive in Osaka—playing with a number of top Japanese rock and fusion jazz musicians, including Kyoji Yamamoto, Minoru Mukaiya, and Tetsuo Sakurai.

[18] Towards the end of the year, she began a collaboration with Kiyomi Otaka the keyboard player from Casiopea 3rd, forming the fusion duo Kiyo*Sen.[19] They released their first album Chocolate Booster in January 2014.

There, she met French smooth jazz and new-age music multi-instrumentalist Philippe Saisse,[20] with whom she continues to work.

[26] In April 2015, after graduating from senior high school, she moved to Tokyo to study social science at Waseda University.

[34] In 2016, she released 3 albums: KKK Core, a collaboration between Kawaguchi, Kozo Suganuma and Kaori Hirohara that they had worked on since the previous year; Trick or Treat, her third album as part of Kiyo*Sen, and Cider Hard and Sweet, a collaboration with Philippe Saisse and the bassist Armand Sabal-Lecco.

Throughout 2017, she participated in events to promote Yamaha Drum's 50th anniversary—culminating in a concert on stage with Dave Weckl, Steve Gadd, and Akira Jimbo on 2 September.

[43] Also in 2019, she was invited by Jun Abe to join a band which he was setting up combining traditional Japanese instruments with modern ones.

[45][46] In 2020, she played drums as a guest player for single album Ritual iDance of London-based Swedish progressive rock and jazz pianist Anders Helmerson.