着る
ki-ru
In Japanese you can wear someone else's guilt
The picture Cloth comes down over the torso and the body ends up inside it, wrapped. 着る wraps cloth over the body; 脱ぐ peels that same cloth off it.
Where the picture shows up in 着る
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Cloth over the shoulders
白いシャツを着てください。
shiroi shatsu o kite kudasai
Please put on a white shirt.
White cloth drops past the head and covers the shoulders and chest.
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One more layer on top
寒いのでコートを着ます。
samui node kōto o ki-masu
It's cold, so I'll put a coat on.
A thick coat settles as a second layer over clothes already worn.
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A uniform wraps the body
作業着を着て中に入ってください。
sagyō-gi o kite naka ni haitte kudasai
Put on the work clothes before going in.
Grey overalls wrap the whole body until the person reads as one of the plant crew.
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The wrapping as a marker
青い上着を着た人が待っています。
aoi uwagi o kita hito ga matte i-masu
A person in a blue jacket is waiting.
Across the room, the blue cloth wrapped around someone reaches your eye before their face does.
In the 着た form, clothing becomes how you point someone out.
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Someone's fault on your shoulders
人の罪を着るのはいやです。
hito no tsumi o kiru no wa iya desu
I don't want to take the blame for someone else.
A heavy coat someone else shrugged off lands on your shoulders and starts looking like yours.
All of it in one picture
着る is one picture of a torso going inside cloth. Let a shirt cover your shoulders and you are dressed; let a coat cover that and you have layered up; let overalls wrap you and you look like staff; let the color of that wrapping show from across the room and it becomes how people pick you out; let someone else's fault settle on your shoulders like a coat and you are taking the blame. Whatever 着る takes, the body ends up on the inside of it, and the outside left showing is what other people read as you.