Yamato (Naruto)

Yamato, also known as Tenzou of the Wood Release and Kinoe, is a character from the Naruto series.
== Charactah Account ==
A member of ANBU, and one of Kakashi's juniors, he is made the temporary Captain of Team 7 while Kakashi recovers in the hospital. As he serves as more of a unit leader than a mentor, Naruto and Sakura call him "taichou" instead of "sensei." The name "Yamato" is actually a code name given to him by Tsunade; his real name is Tenzou. He very much prefers to be called Yamato.
Yamato is a very discreet, cautious and generally well-prepared person. He projects a calm, stoic demeanour even in very stressful situations. He takes his missions very seriously, even insisting on being referred to by whatever his current codename is. In the anime, having no family nor memories of them, Yamato's greatest desire has become to work hard for the village to make others happy and to be acknowledged by all for his efforts, particularly as leader of Team 7, as revealed by Infinite Tsukuyomi. Yamato also takes great interest in architecture which can be seen when he goes out on missions and creates a house to "camp out" in. This skill to incorporate his hobby with his kekkei genkai was also seen after Pain's assault on Konoha where he was key in recreating the village. While he has been good-natured so far, Yamato claims to be a different sort of leader than Kakashi, one who is not above "ruling by the use of terror" when his team misbehaves.
Aside from his obviously intimidating skills as a ninja, however, this "terror" has so far primarily consisted of casting a creepy "ghoul-eyes" expression at his charges. Naruto, especially, is easily terrified by it, and stated that it felt like Yamato was controlling him with fear — something Yamato himself has noted that he has no qualms with. He has also less tolerate of Naruto's antics and lack of respect for rules than Kakashi. He is, however, also prone to being a victim of a cruel joke when given misleading information, as witness his visible fear and subsequent annoyance when Killer B maliciously joked about the dangers of a jinchūriki trying to control their tailed beast. In the anime, he's shown to use his fear face in a more comical manner when he created a bridge for Naruto and the others and asked if Naruto was happy he came along. 
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Boruto: Naruto Next Generations
* Naruto Shippuuden
* Naruto Shippuuden Movie 2: Bonds
* Naruto Shippuuden Movie 4: The Lost Tower
* Naruto Shippuuden Movie 5: Blood Prison
* Naruto Spin-Off: Rock Lee & His Ninja Pals
* Road of Naruto
=== Manga ===
* Naruto
* Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring
* Rock Lee and His Ninja Pals
=== Video Games ===
* Naruto Mobile
* Naruto Shippuuden: Clash of Ninja Revolution 3
* Naruto Shippuuden: Gekitou Ninja Taisen! EX 2
* Naruto Shippuuden: Gekitou Ninja Taisen! EX 3
* Naruto Shippuuden: Gekitou Ninja Taisen! Special
* Naruto Shippuuden: Kizuna Drive
* Naruto Shippuuden: Naruto vs. Sasuke
* Naruto Shippuuden: Ninja Destiny 2
* Naruto Shippuuden: Ninja Destiny 3
* Naruto Shippuuden: Ultimate Ninja 5
* Naruto Shippuuden: Ultimate Ninja Blazing
* Naruto Shippuuden: Ultimate Ninja Heroes 3
* Naruto Shippuuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2
* Naruto Shippuuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3
* Naruto Shippuuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4
* Naruto Shippuuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations
* Naruto Shippuuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution
* Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker
* Naruto x Boruto: Ninja Tribes
* Naruto x Boruto: Ninja Voltage
* Naruto: Shinobi Collection
* Naruto: Shinobi Collection Shippuu Ranbu
* Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Online
== Trivia ==
* Yamato is an ancient name of Japan, and is also the name of a World War II era Japanese battleship. Tenzou means "heavenly creation" and refers to anything created by nature, rather than by humans.
** He could also be named after Yamato Takeru, who was a Japanese legendary prince of the Yamato dynasty and was believed to have been the first ninja.
* "Kinoe" is the first sign of the Chinese calendar.
* Studio Pierrots Settei sheets of Yamato show that he was 140 cm as a 10 year old Anbu and 166 cm as a 14 year old Anbu.
* According to the databook(s):
** Yamato's favourite foods are walnuts, while his least favourites are any food that is oily.
** His hobby is reading books about architecture.
** Yamato wishes to fight Kakashi Hatake.
** Yamato has completed 996 official missions in total: 80 D-rank, 176 C-rank, 400 B-rank, 305 A-rank, 35 S-rank.
** Yamato's favourite phrase is "Knocking on a stone bridge before crossing it" (Ishibashi o tataite wataru).
* In the anime, it is revealed that Yamato suffers from motion sickness while in enclosed spaces.
* Yamato is often affected by running gags in the series:
** The prime running gag is that people overwork him because of his wood abilities. Best seen when he rebuilt some of Konoha and everyone wanted him to do more despite being out of energy after making a street of houses.
** A running gag in two omakes is that whenever his teammates stop for the night, they constantly attack Yamato while still asleep. He was almost hit by Naruto's weapons and a Rasengan, Kiba's Fang Passing Fang and even Shino's kikaichuu swarm. Such assaults always force him to use Wood Release: Wood Locking Wall to protect himself and getting little to no sleep, making him look terrible in the morning.
** He and Orochimaru had a running gag during Naruto & Hinata's wedding with him following Orochimaru, one example is him hiding in a barrel while Orochimaru was on a boat.
* In the Naruto character popularity polls, Yamato was ranked as the 14th most popular character in the 7th.
** In the same poll, his forehead protector ended in 76th place with 6 votes.
* In Naruto SD: Rock Lee no Seishun Full-Power Ninden, Yamato has a non speaking role in the entire spin-off and only makes cameo appearances.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Yamato at Narutopedia
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