A former amateur sumo champion while at Nihon University, from 1975 to 1977 he was a sumo wrestler with the Hanakago stable and used the fighting name of Ōnoumi.
Stable fly | Greentree Stable | Loblolly Stable | Livery Stable Blues | Fujishima stable | Stable theory | Stable Master's House | Ōtake stable | NWA (wrestling stable) | Hanakago stable | Hakkaku stable | Fujishima stable (2010) | Evolutionarily Stable Strategy | Evolutionarily stable strategy | Asahiyama stable |