sentences:  Following his retirement, there were no "yokozuna" on the "banzuke" for the first time in 60 years, and sumo went without a reigning "yokozuna" for the next eight months, until the promotion of Akebono in January 1993.Following his retirement Hokutoumi became a member of the Japan Sumo Association with the "toshiyori" name Hakkaku-"oyakata".He opened up his own training stable, Hakkaku stable, which has had four top division wrestlers, Hokutōriki, Kaihō, Okinoumi, and Hokutofuji.