Set at the end of the Edo (Tokugawa Shoganate) era, the series depicts Kumo's family with his wife, Kame, their 11-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter. They are always ignoring work and playing and Kumo is notorious for womanizing.

In 1978, Haguregumo received the Shogakukan Manga Award in seinen manga category. The series had one chapter published in English in November 1990 in the fifth issue of the educational publication Mangajin.