A beautiful if slightly wild-looking woman in elegant robes appears in the foreground, and a cozy house in the background. Delicate nunome-zuri (a technique in which fabric is glued to a woodblock and blind-embossed to replicate the fabric's pattern on the print) has been applied to the "underside" of the design of the piece of paper that appears to fold over.

As Helen Merritt and ‎Nanako Yamada note in their seminal work Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints: Reflections of Meiji Culture, "On the kuchi-e by Suzuki Kason for The Daughter Manju, Karaito [the woman pictured] appears with a crazed expression and a strand of hair in her mouth. Acutely converging angles express her anger and anxiety as she plots to kill Yoritomo. Only a vision of her rustic mountain home hints at the happy ending of the story". Karaito was the mother of the eponymous Manju, a girl who, through her skillful dancing, was able to negotiate with the shōgun Yoritomo for her mother's freedom (her mother had been imprisoned for attempting to kill Yoritomo for murdering one of her relatives).

Merritt and Yamada note that this kuchi-e designed by Suzuki Kason appeared in a book titled Kohagishū (小萩集, "Collection of Small Bush Clover") by Kōda Rohan published in 1898 (other sources, however, give the date as 1899).