It seems that it was already distributed in the Kanei era in Kyoto and because there was a record prohibiting it in a law for merchants and artisans in June, 1692, it was probably popular at that time.
起源はすでに寛永ころ京都でおこなわれていたらしく、元禄5年5月の町触にはその禁止があるから当時流行していたらしい。