During the late Edo period, brass kanzashi, which was widely used up to then, became unpopular considered as unrefined products, and even women of poor families didn't wear such products as they lived in Edo.
かつては割りに広く用いられていた真鍮製のもの江戸時代後期ともなると野暮と嫌われ、江戸住まいであれば貧しい家庭の婦女といえども身につけなかったといわれる。