He was born in
Obihiro, the son of a
lorry driver. At school he was a soccer
goalkeeper. He had few other wrestlers in his stable at a similar rank to him (former
maegashira Hattori Yuji being forced to retire through injury around that time) and he had to go to other stables in his Tokitsukaze
ichimon or stable group to find quality training partners. He never managed to reach a
sanyaku rank, his highest position in the
banzuke being
maegashira 3 in March 1994. He was also unable to defeat a
yokozuna or win a
special prize. His final appearance in the top division was in May 1998, although he continued to compete in the
juryo division for two years after that. His demotion meant there were no longer any Hokkaidō natives in the top division, a remarkable decline considering that in the early 1990s there were three
yokozuna (
Chiyonofuji,
Hokutoumi, and
Onokuni) from Hokkaidō on the
banzuke. It was not until May 2018, with the promotion of
Kyokutaisei, that Hokkaidō Prefecture had another top division representative. ==Retirement from sumo==