Sea horses Kaiba (title on object) A series with horses (series title) Umazukushi (series title on object); Paper cover with a few dried sea horses and box with two beetles. Both beetles and seahorses were seen as a powerful aphrodisiac; but seahorses were also used as amulets in births. With two poems; insects: beetle; Katsushika Hokusai (mentioned on object); Japan; 1822; paper; colour woodcut; h 212 mm x w 183 mm