Innamino in Banshu District is so to speak the western entrance of the district, situating on the main road to the west. But, as is the case with the upl-and districts, mixed with gravels. And, though lands around the upland had been cultivated before the Nara Period, it was left for a long time as a barren field, and even in the middle age, it was only used as a retreat by the fugitve Samurais who had lost their lords owing to the successive civil wars. The period when the cultivation of this land was taken up on a full scale was after the dawn of the modern age when it became possible to pump the water in the low land up into the ponds of upland with the improvement of engineering wo ks according to that of technique of fortification in our country. At the same time, in the modern age, the lord paid more attention to stabilize the feelings of the people, and in due course, the cultivation of the low swampy land or uncultivated fields in his dominion was was exceedingly promoted. First, Okubo low land, the eastern entrance of Innamino, and Iwaoka and kande high uplands, which situates north to Okubo low land, were cultivated by the Akashi Clan at the beginning of the Edo Period. And Kako, Mori, and Temma uplands in the central part were cultivated with the unstinted support of the lord of Himeji Castle; and the neighbouring Choice Reclaimed Paddy Fields belonged to the village headman were one by one cultivated by the method of Cut-Off-Reclaimed Paddy Fields, with the help of the local people. After the temporary stagnation in the middle of the Edo Period, the shallow sea around the sea-shore was reclamated, while the cultivation of the upland was proceeded to the highest part in the north-east corner, and the cultivation in Innamion was almost completed at the end of the Edo period, in which the capital of rich merchants was great in its assistance. To begin with, this upland was so slow to be cultivated due to the shortage of water; bnt now this upland had been of paddy fielde, the problem of water supply remained causing incessant irrigation disputes, though there had been made numerous ponds getting water either from the rain or from the river running in the low land be low. At the same time, the newly cultivated area was a confused land and, as those lands were increased, the disputes on their possession took place and this resulted the complicated boundaries of villages in this part in the later period.

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