After retiring from sumo in January 1981, he took the name Fujishima and established the Fujishima stable in 1982, which grew to be one of the most powerful in terms of top "makuuchi" ranked wrestlers. When his elder brother retired as a stablemaster in 1993 he purchased the Futagoyama "toshiyori-kabu" or elder stock, with the help of 300 million yen from his "koenkai," or network of supporters. The two stables merged, and the newly renamed Futagoyama stable had one quarter of all the top ranked "rikishi" in it at one point, including two "yokozuna", an "ōzeki" and many others regularly in the junior "san'yaku" ranks. During this time it was undoubtedly the most powerful stable the sumo world has seen in the postwar period. He oversaw the promotion of both of his sons to "yokozuna", the first time ever that two siblings have held sumo's highest rank.