Norakuro(のらくろ) is a Japanese manga and anime created by Suihō Tagawa. The central character, Norakuro, or Norakuro-kun, is a black and white dog. The name Norakuro is an abbreviation of norainu(野良犬, stray dog) and Kurokichi(黒吉, the name of the dog, literally meaning "black lucky"). Norakuro strongly influenced Machiko Hasegawa, the author of Sazae-san, who apprenticed with its author Suihō Tagawa. There is an excerpt that appears in the sixth Kramer's Ergot comics anthology which is the only example of Tagawa's work published in English.