[1] As of May 1962, he is one of six wrestlers in that prefecture to have reached or surpassed the rank of ōzeki,[2] and the first to have achieved this feat since the fourth Tamagaki Gakunosuke, 107 years earlier.

However, the division commander at the time recommended that he become a sumo wrestler because of his good physique, so he was discharged and joined the Dewanoumi stable in 1908.

At the time of his promotion, a banquet was held at the invitation of Nakarai Tōsui [ja], a famous writer from Tsushima.

[6] In 2018, his 1919's keshō-mawashi was retrieved in the Nagasaki Prefectural Tsushima High School as part of the city's survey of cultural assets.

The keshō-mawashi was decorated with light blue waves and golden rocky mountains, portraying a classical Tsushima landscape.