Kisakata located in the Honjo Domain was famous for its picturesque view consisting of Tsukumo-jima Islands and Yasohachi-gata Lagoon, which was depicted as 'small islands floating in the sea with shoals' and where Basho MATSUO also visited on his journey of "Oku no Hosomichi" (The Narrow Road to the Deep North), however, Kisakata was uprooted by the above mentioned great Chokai earthquake (Kisakata Earthquake) and changed into 'an extensive land with scattered mounds.'
松尾芭蕉が『奥の細道』でも訪れた「遠浅の海に小島が浮かぶ」九十九島・八十八潟の景勝地・本荘藩領の象潟はしかし、前述の鳥海大地震(象潟地震)により隆起し、「広々とした陸地に小山が点在する」風景となってしまった。