He came from Mutsu Province in the Sendai Domain (part of what is now Miyagi Prefecture).

Maruyama went to Edo (now Tokyo) at the age of just 17, and was trained by Nanatsumori Oriemon (七ツ森折右衛門).

He is considered to have been a strong wrestler, but it has not been proven that he was awarded a yokozuna license.

In honor of him, the house of Yoshida Tsukasa allowed him to be their disciple from August 1749, but this did not confer him the status of yokozuna.

[citation needed] Maruyama died in Nagasaki while an active sumo wrestler on November 14, 1749, possibly from dysentery.