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There was a designated area where people
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who wanted to trade in rice futures would congregate
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and all trades were supposed to be done there,
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so it became a central marketplace.
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So many people came to the exchange floor
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that it got very noisy and traders can be very noisy people--
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shouting and getting upset;
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trading rapidly back and forth.
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So, they developed, in Dojima, a set of hand signals
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so that it was so noisy and loud
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that you couldn't talk sometimes and it was hard to--
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especially to communicate something