During the matchlock gun era in the West, the user of the gun would hang a number of wooden hayagos joined together in a socket and spigot style with two fine ropes from a belt, which was hung across his chest.
西欧では火縄銃時代においては、木製の早合を2本の細紐で印籠繋ぎにしたものを多数ベルトに吊るしそれを袈裟懸けに掛けて携行した。