Shadow pictures

Over at Pink Tentacle are some interesting examples of a Japanese art form that I hadn't heard of before: Kage-e, or "shadow pictures."  These prints consist of two parts: a "shadow" image, which would typically hint at the shape of an easily recognizable object, and the "real" image, showing what the shadow really belongs to.  These works of art were typically comical, as in the case of the first print (follow the link above), which shows a man being crushed under the ridiculously oversized balls of a flying raccoon dog.  Oh, those Japanese!  So delightfully fucked up.