Where in Japan did the Japanese dish Yakitori originate?

Answer 1

Yakitori was first recognized as a dish in Japan in the middle of the Edo Era (1604-1868) when the meat of wild birds such as ducks, quails and pigeons, which was very expensive, was cooked.

The people who originated the current style of eating Yakitori were farmers who visited the Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine in Kyoto to pray for a prosperous harvest. On the road traveling to the Shrine, the farmers would cook and eat small birds such as sparrows which the farmers considered nuisances because they ruined the rice crops. Holding a Yakitori skewer in the hands and eating the meat was easy while walking along the road, and the dish became popular.

Answer 2

I have talked to one of my teachers about this not a long while ago. The Japnese are startled when you say that from Japanese food you like yakitori or yakiniku. In Japnese they mean fried chicken and fried meat. Of course they add some spices they like over them, but the Japanese do not really recognise these two as traditional Japanese dishes.