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About 3,800 kimono-clad dancers holding hanagasa hats decorated with safflowers, the flower of Yamagata Prefecture, parade down a main street in Yamagata City with traditional shouts of “Yassho, makasho.” Yamagata Hanagasa Matsuri, the prefecture’s foremost summer festival, kicked off with a traditi...