He was known as "Heracles" from his youth, but, in addition to great appetite, he quite often neglected his job because of being too passionate about sumo, and therefore the family that had adopted him dissolved the adoption, then he went to Tokyo to become a professional sumo wrestler.
若い頃から怪力で知られたが、大食漢なうえ大の相撲好きが災いして家業をおろそかにすることが多く、養子先から離縁され、本職の力士を目指して上京する。