Satoshi Kako

Little Daikoku has a magic mallet that brings all kinds of wonderful things when he shakes it. Little Daruma also makes his own magic mallet, but it doesn't quite bring the same results!

Daruma-chan to Tengu-chan is a picture book story whose characters are Daruma (a Japanese traditional toy tumbler modeled after Dharma) and Tengu (a Japanese traditional folktale character, long-nosed goblin). Conversations between the characters are humorous, and visual representations are effectively used in enumeration (catalogue) method or in the scenes such as the transformation of Daruma-chan's nose. Daruma-chan wants to have everything Tengu-chan...