The Hinenosho Ogi Area is rich with the nature of the Izumi Mountain Range and has agricultural land and settlements that take advantage of the unique basin-like formations between the mountains. Hinenosho’s Iriyamada Village used to be located in this area, and the conditions of the village at that time are described in the Masamoto-ko Tabihikitsuke, a diary written by Kujo Masamoto, in detail. Ogi has inherited many features of Hinenosho, including shrines, temples and other components such as a watercourse and ponds, which have been designated as the Historical Remains of Hinenosho (National Historic Sites). A water channel network created by a water use system based on an organic linkage of pond-fed irrigation and river-fed irrigation surrounds small plots of rice paddies to create a landscape of terraced paddy fields. Paintings and other materials from the Edo period (1603-1868) demonstrate that land use in the area has been mostly unchanged since then. The rural landscape of Hinenosho Ogi has gained recognition as a rural cultural landscape that has been inherited from the days of Hinenosho and has evolved gradually from the early modern to modern periods. It was selected as Osaka Prefecture’s first National Important Cultural Landscape in 2013. Cultural landscape means scenery that has developed through the everyday lives of people in harmony with nature in accordance with the local weather and climate. From among such landscapes, the Japanese government selects the places that are considered especially important as Important Cultural Landscapes. Masamoto expressed the countryside scenery in the waka (a type of classical Japanese poetry) “Wasetokare Hineno-ni-tsuzuku Iriyamada” (early rice and brown summer wheat continue from Iriyamada to Hineno).