Career
His highest rank was sekiwake. He once wore a cream-coloured mawashi, or belt, in a tournament, the only wrestler so far to do so.After his retirement in 1981 he was briefly an elder of the Japan Sumo Association under the name of Magaki but left in 1983, turning the name over to Wakanohana II, and became a television personality. He stood for election to the House of Councillors in 2001, but was unsuccessful.
He suffered a stroke in 2006.
He died of heart failure in 2008 at the age of 59.