What rapids is in japan?

Question:

Utagawa Hiroshige painted a painting of a rapids Here is the site http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004EFI… what is it called?

Answer:

The rapids in the picture is a whirlpool.
We call a whirlpool 渦潮 [uzushio], means directly a whirling current.

Especially it of Naruto strait i very famous.
We call it 鳴門の渦潮 [Naruto no uzushio], Naruto whirlpools.