Hokage-Style Sixty-Year-Old Technique — Kakuan Entering Society with Bliss-Bringing Hands

Hokage-Style Sixty-Year-Old Technique — Kakuan Entering Society with Bliss-Bringing Handsedit
火影式耳順術 廓庵入鄽垂手­ (Hokage-Shiki Jijun Jutsu — Kakuan Nitten Suishu)
Name
Literal English	Hokage-Style Sixty-Year-Old Technique — Enclosed Hermitage Entering Society with Bliss-Bringing Hands
Viz print media	Hokage Style Elder Jutsu: Kakuan's Tenth Edict On Enlightenment
English anime	Hokage Style Elder Jutsu: Tenth Edict On Enlightenment
Debut
Manga	Volume #33, Naruto Chapter #296
Anime	Naruto Shippūden Episode #43
Game	Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja 5
Appears in	Anime, Manga, Game
Data
Classification	Kekkei Genkai, Ninjutsu
Nature	Wood Release
Class	Supplementary
Range	Short range (0-5m)
Hand seals	Boar → Dog → Bird → Monkey → Ram → Monkey → Tiger
Users
Hashirama Senju Yamato

This technique utilises the power of the Wood Release to forcibly suppress a tailed beast's chakra. To invoke this technique, it is necessary for the tailed beast or its jinchūriki to be in the possession of the Crystal Gem (結晶石, kesshōseki) that responds to the First Hokage's chakra. The user would produce the seal "sit" (座, suwaru) on their palm, and then by touching the tailed beast's chakra with their hand, the user then suppresses the chakra inside an area lined with ten or eleven wooden pillars.

After Naruto destroyed the gem in his six-tailed form, Yamato tried to suppress the fox chakra at the Falls of Truth, despite claiming earlier being unable to do so without the gem.

Influence

The last part of this technique's name, "Kakuan Nitten Suishu" (廓庵入鄽垂手), comes from a famous series of short poems and accompanying images, called the Ten Bull Pictures (十牛図, Jūgyū-zu, Chinese: Shíniú-tú). The pictures and poems are intended to illustrate the stages of Zen discipline.

They were drawn by a twelfth-century Chinese Zen master called Kuòān (廓庵, Japanese: Kakuan, literally meaning: enclosed hermitage). The tenth poem talks about how the fully-enlightened herdsman returns to the city to help others reach enlightenment. This poem is called Rùchán Chuíshǒu (入鄽垂手, Japanese: Nitten Suishu), which can be translated as "entering society with bliss-bringing hands" (i.e. hands that teach how to reach enlightenment).

Trivia

• In an anime cutscene of Tobi's storyline in Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations, it was shown that this technique restrained Kurama while the Contract Seal was used to release the fox from Madara Uchiha's control. However, in chapter 607, Madara stated that the wooden dragon was used to restrain the tailed beast.