Born on May 5, 1895, in the Fujisato district of Yamamoto, in the Akita Prefecture, Noshirogata was the second son of a family of farmers.

He began his career under the shikona, or ring name, Tsukiyama (突山), which is a reference to a mountain range in his hometown.

[4] He made his sekitori debut in 1919 and was promoted to the Makuuchi division in May 1921, but had to sit out the tournament and was consequently demoted to the rank of jūryō for the year 1922.

However, as a 41 years-old veteran wrestler, he began to suffer from neuralgia and asthma, an illness that already forced him to withdraw temporarily from the March 1929 tournament.

As a sports figure, his keshō-mawashi and photographs are exhibited at the History and Folklore Museum in Fujisato, Akita.