麻布

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 麻布 is read as あさぬの and is a noun for woven bast-fiber cloth such as hemp cloth or linen, used either as material or as the fabric item itself.
• Basic usage: Use 麻布で袋を縫う when it is material and 麻布を掛ける when the cloth itself is hung.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Place-name reading of the same spelling
  • 麻布 can be read あざぶ as a Tokyo place name, but the fabric term here is あさぬの.
• Material and object
  • で marks fabric used to make something else; を marks the cloth itself as the object being moved or hung.