Career
He has taken one sandanme championship. Minami began sumo in only his first year of primary school. In middle school he was regular participant in tournaments and came in third place in a Kyūshū wide tournament.
In his second year of high school he was in the best eight in a national sumo tournament, and in his third year made the best sixteen in the same national tournament.
He continued practicing sumo at Nihon University and was a teammate of later sumo stars Yamamotoyama and Kiyoseumi. Upon graduation he chose to join Onoe stable which was led by former Hamanoshima who went to the same high school and university as Minami had.
He also became stablemates with future ōzeki Baruto. He rose slowly but consistently through the ranks, recording mostly winning records over the next three years.
In the November 2010, he had a breakout performance, losing only to future maegashira Yoshiazuma.
In a playoff for the championship, he lost to future sekiwake Myōgiryū. Upon promotion to the second division he took the ring name of Tenkaihō. lieutenant took him only three winning tournaments in the remainder of 2011 to gain promotion to the top division.
After battling for three tournaments in the top tier makuuchi he was relegated back to the second division.
He has managed to be repromoted three times since then, but has soon been demoted again, and is more of a jūryō regular than a makuuchi performer.