{"id":1805,"date":"2025-12-19T22:20:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crown.salamander-studios.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/19\/yoko-nishiis-2025-concerts-in-mostar-zupanja-vinkovci-labin-and-sisak\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T22:20:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:20:55","slug":"yoko-nishiis-2025-concerts-in-mostar-zupanja-vinkovci-labin-and-sisak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crown.salamander-studios.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/19\/yoko-nishiis-2025-concerts-in-mostar-zupanja-vinkovci-labin-and-sisak\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoko Nishii's 2025 concerts in Mostar, Zupanja, Vinkovci, Labin, and Sisak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Authors:<\/strong> Nenad N. Bach and Darko \u017dubrini\u0107<\/p>\n

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Croatian Dragon Society<\/i> in Zagreb, with Yoko Nishii on the right, Nina Knez next to her with her brother David. <\/div>\n
Awaiting the start of the film shot by Nina’s and David’s father Mr. Nikola Knez (Texas, USA), <\/div>\n
dealing with Franciscan Dragutin Sokol<\/a>, Croatian priest, composer, and martyr.<\/div>\n
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Yoko Nishii, and Nikola Knez of the Croatian Film Institute<\/a>, Texas, USA<\/div>\n
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Yoko Nishii is a great connoisseur of Croatia. She is fluent in Croatian language, and had more than sixty soloist concerts throughout Croatia and in parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). In 2025, she had five soloist concerts: in Mostar (BiH), Vinkovci, \u017dupanja, Labin, and Sisak. Among other things, she was a guest of the Croatian Dragon Society in Zagreb<\/i>. In Mostar, her concert was organized by dr. fra Andrija Niki\u0107, the president of the Napredak (Advancement) Society and of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts of BiH, within the international conference dedicated to marking 1100 years since the appearence of the earliest known Croatian Kingdom established in the year 925, i.e., near the beginning of the tenth century.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n
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Yoko Nishii in Zagreb at Staroslavenski Institut<\/a>, the leading scientific center in the world<\/div>\n
for the study of the Glagolitic Culture, including the amazing Croatian Glagolitic Culture<\/a><\/div>\n
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Yoko Nishii in a popular pub “Pod starim krovovima” (Under the Old Roofs),<\/div>\n
in the Upper Town of Croatia’s capital Zagreb<\/div>\n
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Anita Martinac<\/a>, Yoko Nishii and Mirna Lipovac. View to the city of Mostar.<\/div>\n
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View to the city of Mostar: Yoko Nishii and Darko \u017dubrini\u0107.<\/div>\n

Many thanks to Mrs. Anita Martinac for taking us to this beautiful place.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Graveyard of Peace<\/a>, in Bosnia and Herzegovina<\/a> (BiH), between Mostar and \u0160iroki Brijeg.<\/div>\n
Mirna Lipovac, Yoko Nishii, and Darko \u017dubrini\u0107, before the grave of dr. fra Leo Petrovi\u0107, <\/div>\n
assassinated in 1945 (place unknown). Photo by Anita Martinac.<\/div>\n
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Bosnian Queen Katarina Kotromani\u0107 surrounded by Yoko Nishii, Mirna Lipovac, and Darko \u017dubrini\u0107<\/div>\n
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Yoko Nishii announcing her concert in the Stjepan Kosa\u010da Croatian Cultural Center<\/i> in Mostar<\/div>\n
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Yoko Nishii sending a greeting to all the readers of the CROWN on the occasion <\/div>\n
of the Statehood Day<\/i> (30th May) of the Republic of Croatia.<\/div>\n
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Yoko Nishii’s concert in Mostar<\/a> on 25th May 2025, in the Herceg Stjepan Kosa\u010da Croatian Cultural Center,<\/i><\/div>\n
organized on the occasion of 1100th anniversary of Croatian Kingdom (925-2025)<\/div>\n
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Dr fra Andrija Niki\u0107 handed over to Yoko Nishii an interesting gift – a book of poetry by<\/div>\n
Croatian poet Antun Branko \u0160imi\u0107<\/a> (1898-1925), translated into as many as 18 languages, including Japanese!<\/div>\n
A moment later, Yoko was asked by fra Andrija to read aloud some of the verses printed in Japanese, which she did.<\/div>\n
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Translated from Croatian into Japanese by Ikoku Yamamoto:<\/div>\n
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Translated from Croatian into English by Branko Ru\u017ei\u0107.<\/div>\n
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Pjesnici<\/i> (Poets), the original Croatian verses by Antun Branko \u0160imi\u0107<\/div>\n
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Antun Branko \u0160imi\u0107: Metamorphosis of Voices<\/i>, Matrix croatica (Matica hrvatska) Grude, 2025.<\/div>\n
Translated into 18 languages!<\/div>\n
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Proud Yoko Nishii with the poetry book by Antun Branko \u0160imi\u0107 in her hands<\/div>\n
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Dr fra Andrija Niki\u0107, president of the Napredak Society<\/i> and <\/div>\n
of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts<\/i> in Mostar<\/div>\n
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Authors: Nenad N. Bach and Darko \u017dubrini\u0107 Croatian Dragon Society in Zagreb, with Yoko Nishii on the right, Nina Knez next to her with her brother David. Awaiting the start of the film shot by Nina’s and David’s father Mr. Nikola Knez (Texas, USA), dealing with Franciscan Dragutin Sokol, Croatian priest, composer, and martyr. Yoko […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":1784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crown.salamander-studios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crown.salamander-studios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crown.salamander-studios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crown.salamander-studios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crown.salamander-studios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crown.salamander-studios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crown.salamander-studios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crown.salamander-studios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crown.salamander-studios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crown.salamander-studios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}