Tomozuna stable
He retired in January 1982 and became an elder in the Japan Sumo Association. He worked as a coach at Tatsunami stable, and his two sons were both wrestlers there under the "shikona" of Haguronada and Hagurokuni. He borrowed the Nishikijima, Yamahibiki, Dekiyama and Kitajin elder names before permanently acquiring the Takekuma name in 1988 upon the mandatory retirement of ex-"sekiwake" Kitanonada (who was his father-in-law, as he had married Kitanonada's daughter in 1973). Following the retirement of Tatsunami's stablemaster (ex-Annenyama) in 1999 he branched out to open up his own Takekuma stable, not wishing to overshadow Tatsunami's new stablemaster (ex-"komusubi" Asahiyutaka) who was some 20 years his junior. He took his sons with him, but Takekuma attracted no new recruits and folded in 2004 after only five years when his only remaining wrestler (Hagurokuni) retired. He moved to Tomozuna stable in an assistant coach role, and reached the Sumo Association's mandatory retirement age of 65 in November 2013. His grandson Toranosuke joined Sakaigawa stable (wanting the challenge of joining a stable with no connection to his grandfather's) in May 2018 and fights as Tanakayama.