Hyūga Main Family's Juinjutsu

Hyūga Main Family's Juinjutsuedit
日向宗家の呪印術­ (Hyūga Sōke no Juinjutsu)
Anime version of the seal.
Name
Literal English	Hyūga Main Family's Cursed Seal Technique
Debut
Manga	Volume #12, Naruto Chapter #102
Anime	Naruto Episode #61
Appears in	Anime, Manga
Data
Classification	Juinjutsu
Rank	A-rank
Class	Supplementary
Range	Short range (0-5m)
Hand seals	Technique specific hand seal

This seal is given to all branch house members in the Hyūga clan by members of the main house. Its main purpose is to seal their Byakugan ability when they die, preventing an enemy from learning its secrets. Its secondary purpose is to control the branch house, since it can be activated at will by a main house member with a hand seal only known by them to destroy the wearer's brain cells.

The seal is placed on the wearer's forehead when the next member of the main house turns three years old, (Neji Hyūga received his at the age of four on Hinata's third birthday), and is only removed upon their death. Branch house members tend to keep their foreheads covered because of the seal.

Trivia

• Because of the seal's resemblance to a swastika which in actuality is a Buddhist symbol but more commonly associated with the Nazi, is replaced with an X in the anime version of the series to avoid confusion. It receives the same treatment in Viz's monthly distribution of the English manga, but the original design is retained in Viz's volume compilations.
• Ao from Kirigakure killed a member of the Hyūga clan to obtain his Byakugan eye. Whether he killed a Main or Branch House member is still unknown, but it is however likely that he killed a member of the Main House or he removed the eye of a Branch member while his opponent was still alive; whether the Hyūga seal prevents this is unknown.