{"id":"mokuton","name":"Wood Release","japanese":"木遁","category":"techniques","subtitle":"Hashirama's ability is not the whole clan's property.","summary":"A kekkei genkai that combines water and earth natures to produce wood and plant life through chakra.","facts":[["Tipo","Kekkei genkai"],["Combinación","Water and earth"],["Ejemplo","Hashirama"]],"lvl":0,"sections":[{"h":"What Wood Release is","lvl":0,"ch":"naruto-120","t":"Mokuton, or Wood Release, is a kekkei genkai that combines the water and earth natures to create wood and plant life: trees, roots, structures and prisons. Its benchmark is Hashirama Senju, the First Hokage. During the invasion of Konoha, Orochimaru resurrects him, and Hashirama makes an entire forest sprout in the middle of the fight against the Third Hokage. The technique is not obtained by using Water and Earth Release separately: it takes the combination inherent to the hereditary ability. That is why Tobirama or Tsunade being Senju does not make them Wood Release users.","pos":120},{"h":"Yamato and controlling the Nine-Tails","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-296","t":"In the second part, Yamato replaces Kakashi as team leader and uses Wood Release in very practical ways: he raises a four-pillar house for the team to rest in, sends out wood clones to track, and above all restrains the Nine-Tails' chakra when Naruto loses control. In the fight against Orochimaru, Naruto unleashes four tails and Yamato manages to suppress that power with his technique. His ability does not come from a lineage: Orochimaru recognizes him as the only survivor of his experiments with the First Hokage's cells.","pos":296},{"h":"The necklace and other limits","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-514","t":"Yamato's Wood Release has clear limits. During the fight against Pain's Paths, Naruto reaches eight tails and destroys the First Hokage's necklace meant to restrain him, while Yamato can barely react from afar. In the war, Kabuto captures him to use his Wood Release to produce an army of White Zetsu, which shows the ability can be exploited by others. Having Wood Release is not the same as matching Hashirama: transplanted cells grant access, but not the same level or the same resilience.","pos":514},{"h":"Other bearers through cells","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-603","t":"Hashirama's cells appear in several other bodies. Danzō has an arm with those cells and turns to Wood Release against Sasuke at the Kage Summit. Madara, resurrected in the war, uses Hashirama's techniques, from toxic pollen to twenty-five wood clones. And Obito's past reveals that his shattered body was rebuilt with the First Hokage's cells. All these cases are the result of experiments and transplants, not inheritance: wood becomes accessible, but often with side effects and without Hashirama's natural control.","pos":603},{"h":"Hashirama at full strength","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-621","t":"The memory of the last duel between Hashirama and Madara at the Valley of the End shows Wood Release at its greatest scale: Hashirama, in Sage Mode, raises a gigantic wooden statue to face Kurama clad in Madara's Susanoo. He had also contained several tailed beasts with wood in his time. That scale is something nobody else reaches in the story, and it explains why his cells are so coveted. Even so, not even Hashirama wins through sheer strength: his story is that of a leader trying to close the cycle of wars.","pos":621}],"characters":["hashirama"],"related":["senju","suiton","chakra","valle-del-fin","trasplantes","experimentos-de-orochimaru","kekkei-genkai"],"reference":"Naruto, chapters 291–299, 619–626 and 648–649: wood, experimentation and Hashirama.","sources":[{"title":"Hashirama: Butsuma, Mito y la fundación de Konoha","url":"https://naruto-official.com/en/news/01_1627"}],"figures":["
CHAKRA · WOOD · CONTROL
Mokuton · Original diagramProducing and controlling wood with chakra. The diagram does not make every Senju a user or reproduce a specific technique.
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