In the early Edo period, sento, a business to provide bathtubs filled with warm water, started and around the Genroku era, sento became popular in the towns of Edo and Kamigata (Kyoto and Osaka area), where the common people went to sento carrying their clothes and items used for bathing wrapped up in 'Hiratsutsumi.'
江戸時代初頭、湯を張って入浴に供する商売：銭湯が誕生したが、元禄時代頃から江戸や上方の町では銭湯が盛んになり、庶民も衣類や入浴用具を「平裹（平包）」に包み持って銭湯に出かけている。