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。