In Japan, when food were grilled, it had been general to heat with burning charcoal in a brazier such as shichirin (earthen charcoal brazier for cooking) until the beginning of the Showa period.
日本で食物を焼いて調理する場合、昭和初期まで木炭を燃料として七輪などで加熱する方法が一般的だった。