In 2011, as well as continuing session work, she made her first overseas trip as a drummer when
Yamaha Drums invited her to showcase some of their new drum kits at the 2011 Winter
NAMM Show in
Anaheim, California. Later in the year, she travelled with Yamaha to China, to participate in the 2011
Tianjin Jiutai International Drum Festival. In 2012, she made her first national television appearance when, along with the members of
Senri’s Super Session, she accompanied guitarist Kyoji Yamamoto at that year's
Tokyo Crossover Night International Jazz Festival, which was broadcast by
Fuji Television on their satellite channel. On her 16th birthday in January 2013, she released her first solo album
A la Mode. There she was accompanied by a number of Japanese musicians, including some that she had performed with in her BeeHive Sessions. Later that year, she travelled to the
Hua Hin Jazz Festival, where she performed with Jun Abe, Shingo Tanaka, the bassist of fusion jazz band
T-Square, and Kay-Ta Matsuno. 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. They released their first album
Chocolate Booster in January 2014. The release of this album was followed up with a short tour later in the year. At the beginning of 2014, she went to
Los Angeles to record her second solo album,
Buena Vista. There, she met French
smooth jazz and
new-age music multi-instrumentalist
Philippe Saisse, with whom she continues to work. She was also invited to be one of the international judges for the 2014 Hit Like a Girl drum competition, and has been a regular judge since then. Later in the year, she became involved in idol group
E-Girls' tour of Japan, joining their support group as the drummer, giving her her first experience of performing at larger venues, including Tokyo's
Budokan. In April 2015, after graduating from
senior high school, she moved to
Tokyo to study
social science at
Waseda University. In June that year, Kiyo*Sen released their second album
Duology and followed it up with a short tour publicising the release. In August, she travelled to the 2015 Rock au château festival held in the grounds of the château de
Villersexel in France. In September, she performed at the Super Mario 30th Anniversary Concert in Tokyo. She also became more in demand to work with other artists, either in concert, or as a session artist on albums, notably being invited to perform with
Guthrie Govan on the Japanese leg of his
Erotic Cakes tour at the end of 2015. She would work again with Govan, a year later, at the end of 2016. 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. Artists that she worked with in 2017 included
Bootsy Collins on his album
World Wide Funk, which was released in October 2017 and Jan Erling Holberg, with whom she worked on the single
Aim to Please. In September 2017 she performed with Saisse and Sabal-Lecco for a televised performance at the 2017 Tokyo Jazz Festival at
NHK Hall, after which they performed at various venues, including Motion Blue in Tokyo, which was recorded and released as a DVD and Blu-ray, and for which they won the Nissan Jazz Japan Award 2017 for Best Live Performance. In October 2017, she travelled to
Bengaluru where she participated in the 2017 October Octaves with
Indian fusion violinist
Abhijith PS Nair. 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. In 2021, it was announced that the band would be named ZAON (坐音). 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. In 2021, she led a performance on the rooftop of the Andaz Tokyo Toranomon Hills with seven other young Japanese performers for the closing ceremony of One Young World Munich 2021. A film "Senri's Seven", directed by Lilou Augier was made about preparations for this performance; it included some music from the actual performance. They also performed as "The Jazz Avengers" at Billboard Live YOKOHAMA and Billboard Live OSAKA. In 2023, the Jazz Avengers announced their first album and release tour on their YouTube channel. On February 26, 2025, The Jazz Avengers announced their hiatus starting May 2, 2025 on their website. Since 2022, she has been playing with bassist Masatoshi Mizuno and guitarist Shoya Kitagawa in the jazz fusion band Nankai TRIO. They released their first album, Antarctica, in April 2025. == Discography ==