Ōikari's danpatsu-shiki or official retirement ceremony was held in the ground floor of the Ryōgoku Kokugikan on May 28, 2005 with 230 invited guests including former ōzeki Musōyama.

His elder son Seigō Saito (born 2005) joined Isenoumi stable in January 2023 under the shikona of Wakaikari [ja] and reached the jūryō division in November 2024.

[2] Ōikari's younger son, Chūgō Saito (born 2006), won a gold medal in Junior Sumo World Championships in 2023 as part of the Japan team.

After a successful amateur career, Chūgō qualified as a sandanme tsukedashi, becoming the first professional sumo recruit to be able to access the revised form of this status since its reform in September 2023.

[4] After passing sumo's physical examination the following month it was decided that Chūgō's shikona would be Ikarigata, taking the kanji characters from both his father and brother.