 He stayed in sumo as a coach under the elder name Inagawa Oyakata.In June 2014 he moved from Dewanoumi stable to Chiganoura stable.It had been thought that he would taker over the running of that stable when its head coach, former "sekiwake" Masudayama, reached the mandatory retirement age of 65 in April 2016, but the job went to the former "komusubi" Takamisugi instead.