"Kawa no nagare no yō ni" (川の流れのように, "Like the Flow of the River") is the last single recorded by Japanese enka singer Hibari Misora, as she died soon after its release in 1989.
[2] The single charted at 8th place for more than a year[3] and sold 225,000 copies in Japan.
It is often the song of choice for artists performing live tributes to Misora.
It is also covered by various singers, including Teresa Teng, The Three Tenors and Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán.
[5][6][7] Weekly Year-End The song inspired the Kawa model used in occupational therapy.