 His efforts saw him promoted to the rank of "sekiwake" for the first time, 59 tournaments after his top division debut.This is the second slowest in history, behind only fellow Oguruma stable member Takekaze, who took 68 tournaments to reach "sekiwake".Yoshikaze achieved a majority of wins in his debut at "sekiwake", but lost the rank after the following tournament where he could only score 4–11.