Shō-chan no Bōken (正チャンの冒険, Shō-chan's Adventures) is a Japanese four-panel manga drawn by Katsuichi Kabashima (樺島 勝一, Kabashima Katsuichi, under the pseudonym 東風人, Tōfūjin) and written by Nobutsune Oda (織田 信恒, Oda Nobutsune, as 織田小星, Oda Shosei), serialized in Asahi Graph and Asahi Shimbun from 1923 to 1926 At first, the serialization was anonymous, but the authors' names were written in the March 1, 1924 edition. The comic depicted various adventurous journeys of the main character, a boy named Shō-chan and his sidekick squirrel Risu (リス) , and was very popular among readers of the time for its fantastic stories, reminiscent of fairy tales and illustrations with a Western flair. Source: Wikipedia (en)