During the Edo period, Natto vendors were popular along with the clam vendors so that there remains a satirical short poem, 'Natto and Clam wake me up in the morning.'
江戸では上記の蜆浅蜊売りとともにポピュラーな存在で､「納豆と蜆に朝寝起こされる」などという川柳も残る。