Back then, however, just as the Chinese characters for kabayaki suggest, the way eels were eaten was that they were simply chopped into large chunks like the heads of cattails, skewered and broiled, and therefore, they were treated as coarse fish.
しかし、当時は蒲焼の文字通り、蒲の穂のようにぶつ切りにした鰻を串に刺して焼いただけ、という食べ方で、雑魚扱いだった。