Sadogatake stable

In April 2024, the stable recruited Kōsei Motomura, a former Hakuhō Cup participant and the first wrestler since the end of the Second World War to measure less than 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) since the abolition of the weight and height minimums system.

[3] In January 2021, junior wrestler Kotokantetsu retired and publicly criticized Sadogatake-oyakata for not supporting him during his sumo career and not allowing him to sit out that month's honbasho despite his fears of contracting COVID-19 after undergoing cardiac surgery.

Yanagihara showed reporters a picture he took in July 2017 and sent to his mother using the communications app Line of a package of rib roast allegedly served at the stable that had been expired for 5+1⁄2 years.

[6][7] Virtually all wrestlers at this stable take ring names or shikona that begin with the character 琴 (read: koto), in deference to the founder, Kotonishiki, and the owners who followed him.

Chiba prefecture, Matsudo City, Kushizaki Minamicho 39 7 minute walk from Matsuhidai Station on the Hokusō Line