His daughter married the sixth head, the 38th yokozuna Terukuni Manzō who led the stable from 1961 until his death in 1977.
He had already made arrangements to pass control over to former ōzeki Kiyokuni Katsuo before his death.
[1] After Kiyokuni's wife and children were killed in the Japan Air Lines Flight 123 crash in 1985, the stable began to decline.
Its last top division wrestler Wakasegawa retired in 1992, and after jūryō division wrestler Kiyonofuji fell to makushita in January 1994, the stable had no more sekitori.
[2] After Kiyokuni reached the mandatory retirement age of 65 in November 2006, it was led temporarily by the former Katsuhikari, who wound up the stable on February 1, 2007, moving to Kiriyama stable.