Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-28517755-20180121005942/@comment-1458758-20180129181929

Raikyy wrote: Was gonna talk about this also until I started thinking about how her mother must have been a Senju and not her father which is why she doesn't have the surname. Not how it works in Japanese culture. While its the norm to inherit the father's family name in European and American cultures, In Japan, the husband or wife is taken into the family with the highest social standing. Considering then that the Senju founded the village and its first two leaders were some of the most powerful shinobi in the world, its unlikely that whatever clan Tsunade's parent married into, if they even married outside the Senju to begin with, had a higher status.