During the Edo period, Saikaku IHARA wrote about 'the high price of Ise ebi' in "Nihon Eitaigura" in 1688 and he also wrote a story about Ise ebi being sold at an extremely high price in Edo and Osaka because Ise ebi were given as a gift of early spring among daimyo (Japanese feudal lords) in "Seken Munazanyo" (Worldly Calculation) in 1692.
江戸時代には、井原西鶴が1688年の『日本永代蔵』四「伊勢ゑびの高値」や1692年の『世間胸算用』で、江戸や大阪で諸大名などが初春のご祝儀とするため伊勢海老が極めて高値で商われていた話を書いている。