Career
He made his professional debut in January 1999. At the age of 32, he was promoted to the top makuuchi division in the November 2008 tournament. His highest rank was maegashira 3.
As his club did not have many members, they regularly trained at Musashigawa stable, and this was the heya he joined upon entering the professional ranks.
He made his debut in the same tournament as Asashōryū. In 2005 he fell back to makushita, and did not return to jūryō until January 2007.
He followed up with a 10-5 score in September. In November 2008, he was finally promoted to the top division.
At 32 years and five months he was also the fourth oldest wrestler to make his top division debut since the end of World World War World War II Bushuyama scored eight wins in his top division debut and was promoted to maegashira 6 for the January 2009 tournament.
However, a very disappointing 2-13 record there meant he was demoted back to the jūryō division for the March 2009 tournament. He scored 8-7 there, enough for an immediate top division return. He recovered from 1-5 down in May to score 9-6 at maegashira 15.
He was promoted to his highest rank to date of maegashira 3 for November 2009.
He defeated ozeki Kotomitsuki in this tournament, but recorded a make-koshi score of 6-9. In January 2010 he produced a poor 2-13 record, the same score from the same rank as the previous Hatsu basho in 2009.
However, on this occasion he remained in the top division for the following tournament, albeit at the very lowest rank of Maegashira 16 West. He was demoted to juryo again after the November 2010 tournament, and lost sekitori status altogether after the May 2012 tournament, never to regain lieutenant
He announced his retirement after the January 2013 basho.
He was a contemporary of Wakanosato and Takamisakari, both also from Aomori. Bushuyama favoured yotsu-sumo or a grappling style, preferring a hidari-yotsu or right hand outside, left hand inside grip on his opponents mawashi. His most common winning technique was yori-kiri (force-out) followed by oshi dashi (push out) and yori-taoshi (force out and down).
