To provide an image-receiving body for a heat-sensitive transfer recording, wherein the separation property to a heat-transfer sheet containing a sublimation dye is excellent, the coloring density is high, and a recorded image which is excellent in clearness can be formed, and its manufacturing method.

For this image-receiving body for a heat-sensitive transfer recording, a dye-accepting layer comprises a cyclic ester modified cellulose derivative which is obtained by ring-opening-polymerizing a cyclic ester with a hydroxyl group-containing cellulose derivative. In this case, the dye-accepting layer is formed by applying the cyclic ester modified cellulose derivative solution which is obtained by ring-opening-polymerizing the cyclic ester with the hydroxyl group-containing cellulose derivative, at least on one surface of a base material, in this manufacturing method of the image-accepting body for the heat-sensitive transfer recording.