Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-26636534-20150921160743/@comment-5407586-20150922085419

As far as I understood, Izanagi revives the user by denying the cause of death. Meaning, for a jinchūriki to avoid death by tailed beast extraction, Izanagi would make it so that the extraction never happened. Same for the Rinne Tensei. But Izanagi works only in one's personal space.