籠 - basket, devote oneself, seclude oneself

basket (shopping, etc.); hamper; cage

to shut oneself in (e.g. one's room); to be confined in; to seclude oneself; to hide away; to stay inside (one's shell)

gabion; cage filled with stones

mountain palanquin

holding a castle (during a siege); holing up

bamboo steamer; steaming basket; wooden frame holder with reed base used to steam food over a pot

sedan chair bearer; palanquin bearer; sedan chair business

the dead of night; praying all night in a shrine or temple

inn; tavern; hatago; Edo-period lodging for travellers

(something that is) available for use at any time; (someone who is) at one's beck and call; (something over which) one has complete mastery

to bail out the ocean with a teaspoon; to scoop water with a basket

caged bird