This very famous ukiyo-e made by Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重 (1797-1858) is called “Naruto Whirlpools in the Awa Province” (1855). Naruto is located at the Shikoku coast. The Naruto whirlpools 鳴門の渦潮 are a natural phenomenon, which can be watched even today. Utagawa Hiroshige painted another very similar ukiyo-e with wave motifs shown on Japan Kaleidoskop in August 2013. It is a View of Mount Fuji at Suruga Beach on the Pacific coast of Honshû.
(updated on July 9, 2023)
Japan Kaleidoskop 
Gorgeous.
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Is the Japanese word for whirlpool exactly the same as the English or does it mean something else?
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In Japanese it is 渦 uzu for whirlpool, swirl, maelstrom. Here I used 渦潮 uzushio for whirling tides.
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It’s wonderful !!
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