| His father, deciding he wouldn't raise a baby so demonic, abandoned him in front of a barber's near the woods of Kuzugami, in the neighboring village of Ibaraki, so thereafter Ibaraki Doji was raised by the barber and his wife, who had no children of their own. |
父は鬼のような赤子を持て余し、隣の茨木村の九頭神（くずがみ）の森近くにある髪結いの前に捨て、以後茨木童子は子のいなかった床屋夫妻の子として育った。 |