Following his tournament win Tagaryu was promoted to "komusubi" but turned in a losing score and was demoted. In the January 1985 tournament he defeated "yokozuna" Kitanoumi in what was the latter's last ever bout. This was to be Tagaryū's only "kinboshi." After a series of unimpressive results he was demoted back to the "jūryō" division in July 1988 and promptly won the "jūryō" championship. He thereby became the second person (after Wakanami) to accomplish the somewhat dubious feat of capturing the tournament championship in the second division after winning it in the first. He retired in May 1991. Tagaryu preferred" yotsu-sumo", or grappling techniques. His favoured grip on the opponent's "mawashi" was "migi-yotsu", a left hand outside, right hand inside position. He also liked "uwatenage", or overarm throw, and "uwatedashinage", or pulling overarm throw. His most common winning "kimarite" was "yori-kiri", the force out, used in about 40 percent of his victories. Tagaryu has remained in the sumo world as an elder of the Japan Sumo Association. He became head coach of Kagamiyama stable in 1996 upon the death of his old coach in his days as an active wrestler, former "yokozuna" Kashiwado. His son Shōta, born in 1986, is a wrestler at the stable under the ring name Ryūsei, although he has not got higher than the "makushita" division. The only other wrestler in the stable is the former "maegashira" Kagamiō. In February 2010 Kagamiyama was elected to the Sumo Association's board of Directors and currently also serves as a chief ringside judge.