Debuting in May 2019 as a sandanme tsukedashi, his highest rank is maegashira 15 and he currently wrestles for Tamanoi stable.

[2] He attended Toyo University and in 2018 during his 4th year at the school, he won the individual division of the 97th All Japan Student Sumo Championship.

[3] Even though he was a skilled wrestler, he did not initially indicate interest in pursuing professional sumo,[4] but he said that seeing the success of Takakeishō, whom he had wrestled with in elementary school, and Mitakeumi who had been his senior at Toyo University, encouraged him to join professional sumo.

[7] Up until this point he had been fighting under his family name of Shiraishi, but to mark the occasion he was given a new shikona of Tōhakuryū.

[8] According to his Japan Sumo Association profile, Tōhakuryū favours thrusting and pushing (tsuki/oshi) techniques.