Historically, himuro is said to have initially appeared in the following description for the sixty-second year of Emperor Nintoku in "Nihon Shoki (Chronicles of Japan)" when Imperial Prince Nukata no Onakatsuhiko found a glittering thing when he went on a hunting trip to Tsuge (the present-day Fukusumi-cho, Tenri City, Nara Prefecture).
歴史的には『日本書紀』仁徳天皇六十二年の条に額田大中彦皇子（ぬかたのおおなかつひこのみこ）が闘鶏（つげ,現在の奈良県天理市福住町）へ狩りに出掛けたとき、光るものを発見したとの記述が最初の登場とされる。