The painting is like a big jigsaw puzzle. It has many stories, intertwining and symbols, but at the same time it's about one thing:

露の世の露の中にてけんくわ哉

Tsuyu-no yo-no/ tsuyu-no naka-ni te/ kenka kan

In every dewdrop
Of an unreliable world of dew
There's a war going on!