This print is one of twelve in the rarely seen series Dōraku Kyōkai. It is a satire of an episode in the classic struggle between the Genji and Heike clans in medieval Japan in which Yoshitsune, the Genji clan general and superior of the warrior Kumagai, foretells that Kumigai will be faced with killing Atsumori, a young warrior of the Heike clan whose mother has previously saved Kumagai's life. Yoshitsune devises a tragic solution for Kumigai, placing a notice board near Kumigai's camp, by a cherry tree, which reads: 

Kiyochika's print shows a warrior (Kumigai?) with a surprised expression, holding onto a branch he has just broken off a cherry tree while reading the notice board message. Unfortunately, I've been unable to read or translate the message, but the message does seem to have a police notice on it prohibiting the braking of branches from the tree.