to build, to construct

童子: (Tōhoku region) a child

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

gently, leisurely, slowly

he; boyfriend

straw

俵: straw bag, sack

a house / one's own home / a home, household / a family

(archaic, women's speech, humble) I; me / (modern fiction, women's speech) I; me (used by haughty women of the highest classes of society)