raikyaku no hikaeshitsu'waiting room' for visitors

Ano hanashi wa pinboke da.That story has no point.

sukoshi nonda mizu o ōto suru'vomit' the small amount of water that she drank

Tokoro de, kaikō sūnen no bōeki wa hanshi seikatsunan o gekika shita bakari de naku, keizai no kokuminteki tōitsu no hitsuzensei o mo gekika shita.Incidentally, it wasn't just that life became more difficult for the feudal retainers in the years after the ports were opened for foreign trade, but the need to consolidate the domestic economy became more urgent.