Background
Takayasu was born and raised in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, to a Japanese father and a Filipino mother. He was a center fielder on his junior high school baseball team and through his father"s recommendation he joined Naruto stable upon graduating from junior high school.
Career
His highest rank has been komusubi. He has been runner up in one tournament and earned four special prizes, two for Fighting Spirit and two for Outstanding Performance. On his entry to Naruto stable, he was already 180 centimeters tall and weighed 120 kilograms, and consequently had much expectation pinned on him from the start.
His first tournament was in March, 2005.
He made steady progress through the lower divisions, with only a few losing record or make-koshi tournaments. This propelled him into jūryō division, where along with Masunoyama became one of the first two sekitori to be born in the Heisei era.
He decided against adopting a traditional shikona despite reaching the elite and will continue to use his birth name. In his first jūryō tournament in November he almost pulled off a second consecutive championship, losing to Toyohibiki in a playoff after both finished with 11–4 records.
After two more strong performances at jūryō Takayasu was promoted to the top makuuchi division in July, 2011.
His debut record of 9–6 at maegashira 11 earned him a maegashira rank of northern 6 in the following tournament, then his highest to date, but he only managed a 6-9 record there. After a 9–6 score in the November 2011 tournament he was promoted to a new high of maegashira 3.
He scored only 6–9 in the January 2012 tourney, but a 10–5 record in March saw him reach maegashira 1 in the May tournament.
Takayasu had his best result in the top division to date in the January 2013 tournament, finishing runner up on 12–3 and winning his first sanshō award for Fighting Spirit. Though he has had his fair share of losing tournaments in his subsequent career, he did manage two gold star wins in 2013, in two different tournaments, both at maegashira 1, and both against Harumafuji.
He only lasted one tournament at this rank however, and went into a bit of a slump before bouncing back with an 11-4 at the July 2014 tournament. In the November 2014 tournament he scored against top-ranked competition, earning two gold stars for defeating Harumafuji and Hakuhō and receiving the Outstanding Performance price.
This saw him promoted to komusubi once more at the beginning of 2015, but he once again fell short with a 6–9 record.
He had to withdraw from a tournament for the first time in his career in September 2015, but recovered with two winning records in the next two tournaments. Takayasu is an oshi-sumo specialist, preferring pushing and thrusting techniques (tsuki/oshi) to fighting on the opponent"s mawashi. His most common winning kimarite so far in his career are yori-kiri (force out), hataki-komi (slap down) and oshi-dashi (push out).