Wood Release

**Wood Release** (木遁, *Mokuton*, *Viz:* Wood Style) is a nature transformation kekkei genkai, a combination of Earth and Water Release. It was famously used by Hashirama Senju, and in fact is not known to have naturally occurred in anyone else, leading to it being regarded as impossible to use without having his cells. Because of Wood Release's power and versatility, there have been various efforts to reproduce it after Hashirama's death. Wood Release techniques are commonly affiliated with the Snake hand seal.

## Info

At its simplest, Wood Release allows the user to create wood, essentially converting their chakra into a source of life. At its greatest, mighty trees of various size and shape can be created. The vegetation can sprout from the user's body or grow from the surroundings; Hashirama created a forest that served as a foundation for Konohagakure, contributing to his selection as First Hokage. Wooden constructs can also be created, ranging in complexity from cages to complete houses. It is not necessary that the created wood take any identifiable form, allowing users to focus on its inherent pliability to ensnare targets or its durability for brute force attacks. Wood Release can produce very detailed, ornate constructs. Wood Release: Transformation essentially creates a costume around the user, allowing them to convincingly pass as another person. By using senjutsu, Hashirama could create a gigantic, many-armed wooden statue that he fully controlled; its barrage of punches were chiefly responsible for the Valley of the End's formation. Wood Release's most versatile application is the Wood Clone Technique, which makes a fully-functional duplicate of the user that is indistinguishable from the original and is even capable of performing other jutsu. The Wood Release was also equally famous for its power to manipulate, suppress, and/or absorb a target's chakra, Hashirama's mastery of this ability earning him recognition as one of the few people able to fully control a tailed beast. This would be done by ensnaring a target with the Wood Release and upon such physical contact would then control the chakra until they were finally too weak to escape. Hashirama's usage of this skill let him subdue many of the tailed beasts, keeping them under his control and allowed him to distribute several to the early hidden villages.

## Jutsu

* Hokage-Style Sixty-Year-Old Technique — Kakuan Entering Society with Bliss-Bringing Hands
* Kanzeon Lotus King
* Mayfly
* Multiple Wood Release Clone Technique
* Sage Art Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands
* Spontaneous Tree Summoning
* Top Transformed Buddha
* Transmission Wood
* Wood Clone Technique
* Wood Release Secret Technique: Nativity of a World of Trees
* Wood Release: Advent of a World of Flowering Trees
* Wood Release: Cutting Technique
* *Wood Release: Foo Dog Heads*
* Wood Release: Four-Pillar House Technique
* Wood Release: Four-Pillar Prison Technique
* Wood Release: Great Forest Technique
* Wood Release: Great Spear Tree
* *Wood Release: Hand Tool Manipulation*
* Wood Release: Hōbi Technique
* Wood Release: Hotei Technique
* Wood Release: Nativity of a Sea of Trees
* Wood Release: Serial Pillar Houses Technique
* Wood Release: Smothering Binding Technique
* Wood Release: Stocks
* Wood Release: Transformation
* Wood Release: Tree Bind Flourishing Burial
* *Wood Release: Underground Roots Technique*
* Wood Release: Wood Dragon Technique
* Wood Release: Wood Human Technique
* Wood Release: Wood Locking Wall
* *Wood Release: Wood Spikes Ring*
* Wood Release: World of Trees Wall