Hashirama

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Hashirama Senju 123
Alias(es)	First Hokage; God of Shinobi 128 151
Species/Race	Human; later summoned as an Impure World Reincarnation body 123 130
Gender	Male 123
Affiliation	Senju Clan; Konohagakure; later cooperates with Shinji against the Ōtsutsuki 152 224
Occupation/Role	Former First Hokage; teacher to Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha 152
Status	Deceased and reanimated; remains in the living world 130 152 295
First Appearance	First on-page appearance in the supplied context: Chapter 123, “The God of Shinobi Appears!” 123

Background / History

Hashirama and Madara fought throughout the Warring States period, developing their combat skills through years of conflict. Hashirama recalls that, at Shinji’s age, he and Madara were still fighting with swords 128 129.

As Konoha’s First Hokage, Hashirama pursued peace through cooperation, dialogue, and a balance of power between nations. He distributed the Tailed Beasts so that the villages could deter one another. Tobirama later criticizes this decision, arguing that retaining all nine would have discouraged attacks on Konoha 136 222.

Hashirama believed that Madara died in their battle at the Valley of the End. After Orochimaru reanimates him, Shinji challenges that belief: Madara could have obtained Hashirama’s flesh during the fight and survived through delayed Izanagi. Tobirama’s admission that he preserved Madara’s body gives the theory additional weight 125 129 130.

Appearance

• Black hair: Introduced as a black-haired man; his long hair streams in the surge of chakra when he enters Sage Mode 123 256.
• Sage markings: Dark facial markings appear when he gathers Senjutsu chakra 192 256 258.
• Disguise: Wears modern white robes and a bone-white mask supplied by Shinji to conceal his identity 130 136 144.
• Recognizable face: Naruto identifies him from Hokage Rock after he removes his mask 151.

Personality

Hashirama is warm, approachable, and frequently awkward. He apologizes readily, praises younger shinobi, and tries to defuse confrontations rather than assert his former office. His absent-minded behavior repeatedly frustrates Tobirama: he asks why Dawn members have writing on their masks and greets Tsunade as though she were still a child 130 144 242.

His casual manner conceals sharp judgment. While apparently chatting with Shinji, he listens to Orochimaru and Tobirama’s conversation, evaluates Shinji’s loyalties, and questions the provenance of Madara’s Gunbai 125.

He values peace and initially insists that the dead should not interfere in the affairs of the living. Nevertheless, he becomes willing to reconsider his own legacy. Seeing children from different clans together makes him question whether his conflict with Madara was necessary; meeting Naruto and Sasuke gives him a reason to remain as a teacher rather than a returning ruler 136 147 152.

Hashirama also enjoys testing powerful opponents. He responds enthusiastically to Shinji’s challenges, proposes a combined attack with Madara, and later asks whether he can become stronger enough to fight alongside his old friend again 127 260 262.

Abilities & Skills

Wood Release

Hashirama creates forests, enormous wooden constructs, and restraints capable of contesting Susanoo 127 128.

Technique	Applications and demonstrated limits
Deep Forest Emergence	Sends a vast forest across the battlefield. In the Forest of Death, he can turn the existing woodland into a surging Wood Release ecosystem. Shinji’s Divine Spear cuts through the growth and leaves areas unable to regenerate quickly 127 192.
Wooden Human / Wood Golem Technique	Creates a giant that can match Madara’s Susanoo and, according to Hashirama, capture the Nine-Tails. He enlarges and repairs it during his first fight with Shinji 128.
Wood Dragon Technique	Produces dragons for interception and combat. His Sage Art version creates thicker, tougher dragons with metallic gray-black bodies and markings along their scales 128 256.
Hotei Technique	Summons enormous wooden hands that repeatedly seize Susanoo’s limbs. This restraint ends his first spar with Shinji 128.
Wood Release Clones	Creates four clones to surround Urashiki and attack from multiple directions 192.

Senjutsu

Hashirama learned Senjutsu under Sage Katsuyu in Shikkotsu Forest, then modified and refined it for the human body. Shinji’s system later describes his free-form Senjutsu as combining the arts of the Three Great Sage Lands 129 193.

• Sage Mode: Produces facial markings and a powerful influx of Natural Energy 256 258.
• Enhanced constructs: Strengthens his wooden giants and dragons for battles against Susanoo and other large-scale attacks 128 256.
• Control: Gathers Natural Energy rapidly enough to escalate ongoing combat into enormous Sage Art techniques 258 262.

True Several Thousand Hands

Hashirama’s greatest demonstrated technique creates a towering, thousand-armed wooden Buddha that dwarfs Perfect Susanoo 258.

• Regenerating barrage: Its fists strike repeatedly; destroyed fists sprout fresh branches and reform during the clash with Shinji’s lightning 259.
• Large-scale interception: Battles the descending lightning storm and briefly holds Madara’s meteorites above the battlefield. The second meteor strains the construct and interrupts its barrage 259.
• Multi-directional assault: Hashirama and four Wood Release Clones prepare to use it together against Urashiki 192.
• Combined technique: Madara covers the Buddha in Susanoo armor. Its barrage of 999 giant fists cannot reach Shinji through his spatial barrier, and Shinji’s counterattack eventually breaks the construct apart 262 263.

Sage Art: Gate of the Great God

Hashirama drops enormous torii gates onto an opponent to pin them down 192.

• Restrains Urashiki’s limbs, back, and head through successive gates, concluding with Seal Ten 192.
• Works within Shinji’s barrier, which prevents Urashiki from escaping through Space-Time Ninjutsu 192.
• Remains part of his ongoing fight with Urashiki when Shinji brings Madara to the Forest of Death 209.

Chakra, Perception, and Close Combat

• Chakra reserves: His reanimated body sustains a near-infinite supply of chakra and an unending assault against Urashiki 192.
• Chakra perception: Assesses Shinji’s physical strength, chakra, Uzumaki heritage, and sealed Tailed Beasts 125.
• Seal analysis: Detects the Nine-Tails in Naruto and identifies the combination of sealing techniques within him 148.
• Chakra pressure: Disperses Sasuke’s Great Fireball Technique with a burst of chakra 150.
• Weapon interception: Effortlessly catches Sasuke’s thrown shuriken, including the concealed weapons beneath them 150.
• Combat assessment: Identifies Shinji’s shortcomings in Susanoo mastery despite his immense ocular power and chakra 129.

Other Ninjutsu

• Water Release: Extinguishes Shinji’s Majestic Destroyer Flame at the beginning of their battle 127.
• Fivefold Rashomon: Summons defensive gates to blunt Futsunomitama’s lightning attack and survive the blast 127.
• Vanishing Rasengan: Demonstrates a large thrown Rasengan that disappears in flight, reappears, and destroys a distant target; offers to teach Naruto the technique 151.

Impure World Reincarnation Body

Orochimaru summons Hashirama from the Pure Land, but cannot successfully control him 123 125.

• Regeneration: Recovers a lost arm during the confrontation at Konoha’s entrance 241.
• Resistance to control: Remains unaffected by Orochimaru’s attempts to command him 125.
• Combat implications: Shinji concludes that Hashirama’s reanimated body and refusal to fight to the death make it impractical to force out all his ultimate techniques 128.
• Ethical concern: Hashirama warns Tobirama that misuse of reanimation could destabilize the living world 129.

Equipment / Items

• White robes and bone-white mask — Provided by Shinji as a disguise; Tobirama recognizes the clothing as the uniform of Shinji’s organization 130 144.

Relationships

• Tobirama Senju — Younger brother. Hashirama restrains his hostility and destructive impulses, while Tobirama challenges his idealism. Hashirama later acknowledges that the problems he left behind placed too much pressure on Tobirama 125 145 152.
• Madara Uchiha — Longstanding friend and rival. Their disagreement over peace survives their deaths, but the Ōtsutsuki threat and Shinji’s leadership bring them into cooperation. Hashirama eagerly seeks the chance to fight beside him again 129 209 222 260.
• Shinji Uchiha — Sparring opponent and later ally. Hashirama initially questions his leadership, then offers combat advice, follows his tactics against Urashiki, and supports discussions of the Shinobi World’s future 124 125 129 192 264.
• Naruto Uzumaki — Student. Naruto enthusiastically accepts his offer of instruction and asks him to teach him how to become Hokage 151 152.
• Sasuke Uchiha — Student. Sasuke initially attacks and distrusts him, but accepts him as a teacher after learning his identity. Hashirama is moved by Sasuke’s protection of Naruto and resemblance to someone from his past 150 151 152.
• Tsunade — Granddaughter. Tobirama uses the prospect of seeing her to persuade Hashirama to revisit Konoha; their reunion is complicated by his failure to remember that she is nearly fifty 136 242.
• Shisui Uchiha — Prospective Hokage whom Hashirama supports. He asks Tobirama to help Shisui, believing he could become Konoha’s first Uchiha Hokage 152.
• Orochimaru — Reanimator. Orochimaru summons him to measure Shinji’s power, but loses control of the resurrected Hokage 124 125 128.
• Sage Katsuyu — Senjutsu instructor in Shikkotsu Forest 129.
• Urashiki Ōtsutsuki — Enemy. Hashirama relentlessly attacks him within Shinji’s barrier, yet also converses with him during a break in the fighting 192 198 199.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi — Successor whose governance Hashirama initially praises. Later revelations about Sakumo and Naruto force him to confront Konoha’s failures; he nevertheless objects to Madara’s brutal treatment of Hiruzen 144 230 237 241.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Arc	Hashirama’s role
Reanimation and interrogation	Returns through Orochimaru’s technique, approaches Shinji with curiosity, and questions his conduct as Uchiha clan head. Orochimaru’s control fails 123 124 125.
First battle with Shinji	Allows Shinji to fight Tobirama before accepting a challenge himself. His Hotei Technique forces Shinji to yield; afterward, he gives an assessment of Shinji’s abilities compared with Madara 126 127 128 129.
Investigation of Madara’s survival	Abandons his immediate plan to return to the Pure Land after learning how Madara might have survived. Accompanies Shinji to the Reed Hideout in disguise 129 130.
Return to Konoha	Attempts to calm a confrontation with the Military Police. The Uchiha’s coordination and the village’s mixed-clan children and security forces challenge his assumptions about the present 144 145 146 147.
Teaching the next generation	Meets Naruto and Sasuke, reveals his identity, and chooses to stay as their teacher rather than resume authority as First Hokage. Later checks their progress in ninjutsu training 150 151 152 179.
Battle against Urashiki	Intervenes after Shinji loses an arm, follows Shinji’s tactical instructions, and keeps Urashiki under sustained pressure. Learns that the Ōtsutsuki threaten entire planets rather than merely individual villages 192 198 199 209 224.
Reassessment of Konoha	Debates the failures of his peace system with Madara and confronts the village’s treatment of Sakumo and Naruto. Prevents Tsunade’s confrontation with Madara from becoming a wider battle 222 230 237 242.
Valley of the End exhibition	Joins Madara against Shinji in a staged display for the visiting Kage. Their strongest combined construct is defeated, and Hashirama acknowledges the extraordinary gulf in power 256 258 259 260 262 263.
Ninshu unification conference	Sits beside Shinji as Kei presents centralized governance. His recognition of Ōnoki, alongside Madara’s attention, intimidates the Tsuchikage into withholding his objection 264.
Later battles	Watches Shinji and Nobihi’s destructive clash in astonishment. When Obito advances, Shinji tells Hashirama and Madara that they can no longer participate in a fight of that level 279 295.

Notable Quotes

“I modified and refined Shikkotsu Forest Senjutsu to make it better suited to the human body!” 129

“We're old, Tobirama. The ideals of the old era can't keep up with the new!” 152

“So I've decided to stay in Konoha. Not as Hashirama Senju, the First Hokage returned to the Land of the Living, but as a teacher to those two children.” 152

Trivia

• Shinji asks whether he once fought Kakuzu; Hashirama does not recognize the name 124.
• His cells are sought as a source of strength and Wood Release. Danzō’s implants become uncontrollable during severe chakra depletion, demonstrating the danger of using them 26 27 173.
• His enthusiasm for naming the Susanoo-armored Buddha prompts Minato to offer an even more elaborate technique name 262.