Hidden Leaf Village

𝐊𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐡𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐤𝐮𝐫𝐞 (木ノ葉隠れの里, 𝐊𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐡𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐤𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨 𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐨, 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐓𝐕: "𝐕𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐬" 𝐨𝐫 "𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐟 𝐕𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐞", 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐕𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐬) 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐞. 𝐀𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐛𝐢 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐊𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐡𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐤𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐊𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐤𝐚𝐠𝐞, 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲. 𝐊𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐡𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐤𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐨𝐤𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐭.[𝟏] 𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐬.[𝟐] 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐣𝐚 𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬,[𝟑] 𝐊𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐡𝐚 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐊𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐡𝐚 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐛𝐢 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐰𝐢𝐫𝐥 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐚 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐤 𝐣𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐰𝐢𝐫𝐥 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐚. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐫𝐚𝐩 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐬. 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐊𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐡𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐤𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐣𝐚 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬.

## 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲

### *𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠*

During the Warring States Period, ninja were organised into small mercenary clans that knew nothing but battle. The two strongest of these clans were the Senju and the Uchiha, who had warred against each other for their entire histories. Eventually, intending to end the constant bloodshed, Hashirama Senju used his position as leader of his clan to broker a truce with the Uchiha clan through their leader, his childhood friend Madara Uchiha. Thus the Senju, the Uchiha, and their respective affiliated clans formed the first shinobi village: Konohagakure — a name invented by Madara himself. Other villages would soon start forming, following Konoha's example and essentially ending the Warring States Period,

Hashirama used his Wood Release abilities to produce much of the village's infrastructure. This ability and his ideals were two of the reasons he was chosen to become the village's leader: the Hokage. Madara, however, feared that the Senju would oppress his clan and attempted to gather support to overthrow Hashirama. No Uchiha would help, forcing him to take on Hashirama by himself. Madara was ultimately defeated at what would be called the Valley of the End and he was believed to have died. As a result of the battle, Konoha came into possession of the Nine-Tails. To contain its enormous power, the village began its trend of sealing the beast within the Uzumaki, a clan that the Senju and thus the rest of Konoha had close ties with.

### *𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐬*

At some point, Hashirama came to bind most of the tailed beasts and sold them to other villages during the First Shinobi World War, to promote peace and tranquility. However, this peace was short-lived. Hashirama died during the war, shortly after the village began to flourish, and the mantle of Hokage was passed onto his brother, Tobirama Senju, who became the Second Hokage. Tobirama would later be killed by Kinkaku during the same war, but appointed Hiruzen Sarutobi as Third Hokage shortly before his death. Years later, during the Second Shinobi World War, Hiruzen led Konoha's forces against Iwa and Suna, using Amegakure as their battleground. Ame's leader, Hanzō, also fought Konoha a number of times, and during one of these battles gave Hiruzen's students - Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru - the title of Sannin. During the Third Shinobi World War, Konoha fought the ninja of Iwagakure across Kusagakure. Konoha was almost defeated, but Minato Namikaze and his team helped turn the war back in their favour.

### *𝐍𝐢𝐧𝐞-𝐓𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐅𝐨𝐱'𝐬 𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤*

After the end of the Third Shinobi World War, Hiruzen chose Minato to replace him as Fourth Hokage. Soon after Minato took office, however, a masked man kidnapped Minato's wife, the current Nine-Tails jinchūriki Kushina Uzumaki, after she had given birth to their son Naruto Uzumaki and removed it from her body, which he then used to attack Konoha. Minato was able to defeat the man, but the Nine-Tails proved more difficult. Left with few options, Minato and Kushina gave their lives to seal the Nine-Tails into the body of their newborn son. Many ninja died defending the village, and most survivors blamed Naruto for the Nine-Tails' actions. Hiruzen, Hokage again, outlawed all mention of the Nine-Tails so that future generations would not hate Naruto as their parents did.

### *𝐇𝐲ū𝐠𝐚 𝐀𝐟𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐫*

The **Hyūga Affair** (日向の件, *Hyūga no Ken*) — as the incident is known nowadays in Kumogakure — happened nine years prior to the start of the series, while Kumogakure and **Konohagakure** were at war. In an attempt to put an end to the fighting, they agreed to a peace treaty to be signed on the date which coincided with Hinata Hyūga's third birthday. The treaty was soon revealed to might be nothing more than a cover when the person who was the Head Ninja of Kumogakure at the time — who was in Konoha to sign the treaty — attempted to kidnap Hinata in order to obtain the Byakugan and its secrets. The shinobi was killed in his attempt by Hinata's father, Hiashi Hyūga.

### *𝐔𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐡𝐚 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥*

Konoha's leadership believed an Uchiha was responsible for the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox's attack, and as such cut off the Uchiha from much of the village's affairs. Angered by this mistreatment, many of the Uchiha began plotting a coup d'état that would wrest control of Konoha. However, some Uchiha saw the dangers from such a venture. One such figure was Itachi Uchiha, who became a spy for Konoha's leadership. After peace talks failed, Danzō Shimura ordered Itachi to wipe out his clan in exchange for being allowed to spare his younger brother, Sasuke. Itachi, with assistance from Tobi, did as instructed, but staged events to seem as though he acted alone and for selfish purposes so that Sasuke would someday take vengeance against him for what he did to their family.

### *𝐊𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐡𝐚 𝐂𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐡*

During Part I, Konoha is the site of the Chūnin Exams. During the exams' final stage the village is invaded by Otogakure and Sunagakure ninja, an attempt to end the peace and prosperity that Konoha alone has enjoyed since the Third Shinobi World War. The invaders are repelled, but Konoha suffers heavy casualties, including Hiruzen. Although Tsunade quickly replaces him as Fifth Hokage, recovery for the rest of Konoha's military forces is slow. The village is understaffed until Part II, leaving it unable to properly respond to events occurring in the interim such as Sasuke Uchiha's defection.

### *𝐏𝐚𝐢𝐧'𝐬 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐭*

More than three years after the failed Konoha Crush, the Six Paths of Pain of Akatsuki attack Konoha in an effort to capture Naruto. Konoha's forces have some success while fighting the Pains individually, but can do nothing to stop the village's destruction by Pain's Shinra Tensei. Naruto returns to Konoha shortly afterwards and defeats Pain before confronting Nagato, the man behind Pain. After Naruto convinces him that his actions were wrong, Nagato gives his life to revive everyone that died during the invasion. Tsunade is left in a coma from exhausting herself in protecting Konoha from Pain, causing Danzō Shimura to temporarily take office as her replacement. Danzō oversees the start of the village's lengthy rebuilding process and deals with the immediate aftermath of Pain's attack. The villagers decided to rebuilt their village in the same place instead of a new area as they felt Konoha is where the Hokage Rock is.

### *𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐛𝐢 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐖𝐚𝐫*

Because of Akatsuki's growing aggression, the ninja villages decide to form an Allied Shinobi Forces to oppose Akatsuki in the Fourth Shinobi World War. Danzō is killed shortly after the Alliance is agreed upon, but Tsunade wakes from her coma in time to start overseeing the war efforts. Despite still being under construction, Konoha is used as a haven for refugees fleeing countries where much of the fighting is expected to take place. By the time the war is won, most of the village has been restored. As a result of the war, Konoha's population suffered greatly, but it gradually recovered.

### *𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭-𝐖𝐚𝐫*

During the Sixth and Seventh Hokage's era, the hidden village that was Konoha had stopped being hidden and instead become the first metropolitan area in the Land of Fire. Stores which had been in business since the village's founding grew into 24 hour businesses, and due to condos housing hundreds of people, it brought in more immigrants. Konoha's population eventually turned prominently non-shinobi, due to the Academy introducing a general studies department, with its ninjutsu department falling below quota in the peaceful era. Military budget was considered to be lowered in order to focus on other projects, leading to decreased funding for organisations such as the Anbu. The village expanded to the land behind the Hokage Rock and installed the Thunder Rail throughout the village, leading to Konoha being regarded as a city rather than a village.

Fifteen years after the Fourth Shinobi World War, Konoha held the first Five Great Shinobi Countries co-sponsor Chūnin Exams, during which the final exam venue was attacked and destroyed by Momoshiki Ōtsutsuki, resulting in the Seventh Hokage briefly being abducted. Sixteen years after the war, Isshiki Ōtsutsuki infiltrated the village, which resulted in a small amount of casualties. Three years after Isshiki's assault, much of the village including the Hokage Rock and the city behind it has been destroyed.

## 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬

* Academy
* Akagahara (anime only)
* Amaguriama
* Dango Shop
* Film Theatre (anime only)
* Fire Park
* Forty-Fourth Training Ground
* Hokage Rock
* Hokage Residence
* Information & Receiving Centre
* Jōnin Standby Station
* Kaminarimon Camping Grounds
* Kaminarimon Company Headquarters
* Kikyō Castle
* Konoha Archive Library
* Konoha Aviary
* Konoha Bank
* Konoha Cemetery
* Konohagakure Central Post Office
* Konoha Film Studio (木ノ葉撮影所, *Konoha Satsueijo*)
* Konoha Hospital
* Konohagakure Hospital Pet (anime only)
* Konoha Hot Springs
* Konohagakure Intelligence Division
* Konoha Library
* Konoha Military Police Force
* Konoha Mountain Villa
* Konoha Ninja Tool Research Facility: Detached Office (anime only)
* Konoha Orphanage
* Konoha Purification Plant (木ノ葉浄水場, *Konoha Jōsuijō*)
* Konoha Shinshigai Station
* Konoha Strict Correctional Facility (anime only)
* Lightning Burger
* Main Street Station
* Memorial Stone
* Mission Assignment Desk
* Mohawk Fish Market (anime only)
* Mori-No-Yu Hot Spring (anime only)
* Naka River
* Naka Shrine
* Nakayoshi Factory
* Ninjutsu Research Centre
* Old City Station
* Ramen Ichiraku
* Senju Park
* Shushu-ya
* Tatsumi Gate
* Third Training Ground
* Training Hall
* Uchiha District
* Uchiha Senbei
* Yakiniku Q
* Yamanaka Flowers
* Zeroth Training Ground

## 𝐄𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐬

Konoha has a protocol in case the village is ever under attack.

1. Eliminate the enemy units.
2. If phase 1 is not viable, evacuate every civilian to the nearest shelter hidden throughout the village.
3. Use all of the forces in the village to eliminate the enemy with full force using home field advantage.

## 𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐚

* The hiragana あん (an) is painted on the four entrance gates of the village (one hiragana on each door). This means "hermitage" or "retreat". In kanji, the character is "庵". There are also torii built all around the perimeter wall of the village.

* Masashi Kishimoto stated that Konohagakure was modelled after his own hometown.

* In the first Naruto volume, there's a sketch of downtown Konoha. In a close-up is a billboard with a cartoon version of Masashi Kishimoto holding a paintbrush.

* According to Kai no Sho, Konoha has the highest population out of all the five main hidden villages.

* After Konoha's destruction, there were very few glimpses of the village during its reconstruction in the manga until chapter 616, showing the village looking as it did before the invasion. In the anime (as well as *Ultimate Ninja Storm 3*), most of the village was built within the crater caused by Pain.

* Smoking isn't allowed in the village's public places.