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Good Upbringing Is More Important than High Birth (Uji yori sodachi), from the series Precious Children as the Basis for Proverbs (Kodakara tatoe no fushi)
Artist Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806),
Publisher Iwatoya Kisaburô (Eirindô) (Japanese)
about 1803 (Kyôwa 3)