籠城作戦

ろうじょうさくせん

strategy of holing oneself up in a castle (house, building)

籠

かご

basket (shopping, etc.), hamper, cage

籠目籠目

かごめかごめ

"bird-in-the-cage" children's game

籠枕

かごまくら

pillow made from bamboo or cane (for use during the summer)

葛籠

つづら つづろ

wicker clothes hamper

印籠

いんろう インロー

seal case, pill box, medicine case

目籠

めかご

openwork bamboo basket

皮籠

かわご かわかご

baskets wrapped in paper, bark or skin

蒸籠

せいろ せいろう チョンロン

Chinese bamboo steamer

籠球

ろうきゅう ろう きゅう

basketball

手籠

てかご

handbasket

旅籠

はたご

inn (originally a basket of woven bamboo in which travellers carried food) (travelers)

参籠

さんろう

retirement (to a temple of shrine) for prayer

屑籠

くずかご

waste basket, wastepaper basket

灯籠

とうろう

garden lantern; hanging lantern

薬籠

やくろう くすりかご

medicine chest (container)

籠耳

memory like a sieve; going in one ear and out the other

魚籠

びく さかなかご

(wicker) basket used for carrying fish, creel

籠絡

ろうらく ろう らく

inveigling, ensnaring, enticement, cajoling