A soy sauce dumpling originated as offerings to a shrine or a household Shinto altar, i.e., offerings to the gods, and it is said that five dumplings on a skewer expresses a man's whole body.
醤油だんごは、神社や神棚への供物、すなわち神饌に由来し、串に5つの団子を指すのも人間の五体を表すとされる。