A top division wrestler will arrive at the stadium in the afternoon and enter the changing room.
Many of the current top division wrestlers entered professional sumo by this route.
He was the last top division wrestler from the Showa era to retire.
He is the elder brother of Toyozakura, also a top division wrestler.
He developed a number of top division wrestlers, such as Myobudani.
This left the Takasago stable without any top division wrestlers for the first time in its 123 year history.
He had not managed to produce any top division wrestlers in that time.
His rank of jonokuchi 4 in May is the lowest ever held by a former top division wrestler.
Over the next thirty years the stable produced a string of top division wrestlers.
He was also the first top division wrestler from Wakayama Prefecture for nearly 40 years.