[1] Although he achieved consistent results, Takamiyama never broke through to the upper echelons of the rankings, remaining a maegashira for the rest of his career.

[2] With the Meiji Restoration and the abolition of the han system, sumo wrestlers lost the patronage of the lords, who could no longer maintain households of their own and financial support from organizers gradually dried up.

Out of filial piety, however, Takamiyama made the other wrestlers and himself swear an oath to always remain loyal to the Sakai clan (lords of the Himeji Domain).

[4] For his deeds of loyalty, Takamiyama was rewarded by the Sakai clan, who gave him 75 ryō and later gave him his definitive name of Takasago Uragorō (高砂 浦五郎), a clan legacy inspired by the Takasago-no-Ura (高砂の浦), a famous beach in Harima Province (now Takasago in Hyōgo Prefecture) known for having been visited by Emperor Daigo and for being the inspiration of a play in noh classical dance-drama.

[4] This second movement, launched in the middle of a joint tournament with the Osaka-based sumo association, immediately halted matches, threatening all wrestlers with a return to Tokyo without a participation bonus.

[8] After several months of negotiation, the Takasago Kaisei-Gumi, strong of a hundred wrestlers, was reinstated in the Tokyo-based sumo association.

[10] Takasago had a prolific career as a stablemaster, raising Ōdate to the rank of sekiwake (before the latter left the stable after clashing with his master).

At the 1895 summer tournament, he himself tried to overturn a gyōji's decision to declare Nishinoumi the winner in his match against then-maegashira Hōō.

One of his disciples, Sekiwake Takamiyama Sōgorō [ja] (who had previously taken the elder name "Ōnomatsu" as its fifth-generation) succeeded him.