He was promoted to the makushita division in the November tournament following his championship. He spent all of 2010 in makushita and had only two losing tournaments until reaching makushita 2 in November of that year. Though on the cusp of being promoted to the salaried ranks of jūryō, he only managed a 1–6 record. He changed his ring name from his surname to his current one in January 2011. He spent most of 2011 working his way through makushita much as he had in 2010. On reaching makushita 1 in the September tournament he put in an impressive 5–2 record and achieve promotion to jūryō on his second chance. In his first jūryō tournament in November 2011 he garnered a lot of attention by winning his first seven bouts, however he lost four in a row after that, ending with a 10–5. This was followed by a disastrous 2–13 record for the January 2012 tournament, largely due to a knee injury, which dropped him back to makushita. He fought back with a 4–3 record in the following March tournament and earned re-promotion to jūryō. From this point on he managed to work his way through jūryō posting mostly winning records. This continued up until the May 2013 tournament, where he achieved a strong 12–3 record and almost took the jūryō championship, only losing it to Kotoyūki on the last day of the tournament. This was still enough to earn him promotion to the top-tier makuuchi division for the July 2013 tournament. Makuuchi and later career In his first top-tier tournament he managed a 9–6 record, making him the first makuuchi debut wrestler in 2013 to achieve a winning record. In the following two tournaments however, he would get two consecutive losing records, just barely managing to avoid demotion. He dropped to the second division in 2014 but was immediately promoted back to makuuchi after posting a 12–3 record. Fighting from the low rank of maegashira 16 in the January 2015 tournament he scored 11–4 and was runner-up to Hakuhō, who won a record-breaking 33rd yūshō. He remained in the top division for the next two years, reaching a career high rank of maegashira 4 in May 2015. He then dropped down the banzuke and was relegated again after the September 2016 tournament. He returned to makuuchi in March 2017, but a record of only 4–11 in consecutive tournaments in