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500 Tögrög Yokozuna Shiranui
| Issuer | Bank of Mongolia |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Composition | Silver (.999) |
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| Obverse lettering | Монгол Банк ᠮᠤᠩᠭᠤᠯ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ 500 TӨГРӨГ MONGOLIA 1 OZ 999,0 SILVER (Translation: The Bank of Mongolia Monggol Ulus (Mongolia) 500 Tögrög) |
| Reverse description | A full-length polychrome depiction of the legendary yokozuna Shiranui rendered in the classical Japanese woodblock print style dominates the central field. The sumo grand champion is shown in a dynamic shiko stance, wearing an ornate kesho-mawashi ceremonial apron with elaborate fringe and decorative braid, applied in vivid color enamel. A geometric key-fret border runs along the inner rim of the coin, framing the design in an East Asian decorative motif. The date '2005' is incused in stylized numerals along the lower exergue. |
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Shiranui Kōemon was a 19th-century ōzeki wrestler whose name was posthumously elevated to yokozuna status — a retroactive recognition Japan's Sumo Association has applied selectively to historical greats. He is also, more consequentially for iconography, the namesake of the yokozuna rope style bearing his invention: the distinctive front-loop shiranui-gata, as opposed to the unnotched unryū-gata. Mongolia's interest in sumo is anything but incidental — by 2005, Mongolian wrestlers were actively dominating the top ranks of professional sumo in Japan.