500 Tögrög Yokozuna Shiranui

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.