Hashirama Senju

1. 1
   Child of war

   Born into the Senju–Uchiha war

   Hashirama grows up a child soldier, the eldest Senju son in a war with no end in sight. He buries brothers young, and refuses to believe the fighting is simply the way of things.

2. 2
   The boy by the river

   A dream shared across clan lines

   Hashirama befriends Madara, a boy of the enemy Uchiha, before either knows the other's name. They share one dream — a village where children are not sent to die — and carry it even after the friendship is forced to break.

3. 3
   Senju clan head

   Leading through the war

   Hashirama becomes head of the Senju clan and leads it through the grinding war, all the while looking for a way to end it that does not mean wiping the Uchiha out.

4. 4
   Founding Konoha

   The dream made real

   Hashirama makes peace with the Uchiha and, with Madara, founds Konohagakure — the first hidden village. He becomes its First Hokage, and the dream of a peaceful childhood finally has a place to stand.

5. 5
   Losing Madara

   The friend he had to strike down

   Madara comes to believe the village betrayed the Uchiha and turns against it. Hashirama will not let him destroy what they built — and kills his oldest friend at the Valley of the End, with grief, not triumph.

6. 6
   LegacyDebut Arc · Fourth Shinobi War

   The Will of Fire outlives him

   Hashirama dies, but the Will of Fire he planted — the village as one family — outlasts him by generations. He returns once more, reanimated, to fight in the Fourth Shinobi World War.

Hashirama was called the God of Shinobi, and the title was not flattery. He was the one shinobi born with Wood Release, he could subdue Tailed Beasts where others could only run from them, and the Senju life force in him was deep enough to fight Madara for a full day and night and still stand.

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• Who is Hashirama Senju?+

  Hashirama Senju is the First Hokage of Konohagakure and the founder of the Hidden Leaf. A leader of the Senju clan, he was called the God of Shinobi for his unmatched power, and he ended generations of clan war by founding the first hidden village.
• What is Wood Release?+

  Wood Release is Hashirama's kekkei genkai — combining Earth and Water chakra to grow living wood: forests, walls, fortresses, and binding restraints. Hashirama is the only shinobi in the series born with it; every later user gained it from his cells.
• Did Hashirama found Konoha?+

  Yes. Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha co-founded Konohagakure, ending the war between their clans. Hashirama became the First Hokage, and the village system they created was soon copied across the shinobi world.
• What is the Will of Fire?+

  The Will of Fire is the philosophy Hashirama built Konoha on — the idea that the whole village is one family, that each generation protects and believes in the next. It became a cornerstone of Konoha's teaching for decades after his death.
• How did Hashirama die?+

  Hashirama died years after founding the village, having outlived the Warring States period he was born into. In Narutodle his vital status is recorded as deceased; he appears later, reanimated by the Edo Tensei, in the Fourth Shinobi World War.
• Has Hashirama been a Narutodle answer?+

  Hashirama is in the daily answer pool of 210 characters. The Previous Narutodle Appearances list on this page shows every date he was the Classic answer, each linking to a replayable archive puzzle.
• How do you guess Hashirama in Narutodle?+

  Hashirama's Wood Release in the Kekkei Genkai column is the tell — he is the one character born with it naturally. His Senju clan and Kage rank narrow the field further, and his Fourth Shinobi World War debut means the Debut Arc arrow points up.