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

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 user or a jinchūriki to be in the possession of the that responds to the First Hokage's chakra. The user produces the kanji in his palm, and by touching the tailed beast, or its host, with their hand, the user suppresses the chakra inside an area lined with ten pillars.

When Hashirama used it on a tailed beast directly, rather than a jinchūriki, he circumvented the use of the pillars and channelled the tailed beast control through his Wood Release: Wood Human Technique.

Influence
The last part of this technique's name,, comes from a famous series of short poems and accompanying images, called the. The pictures and poems are intended to illustrate the stages of Zen discipline.

They were drawn by a twelfth-century Chinese Zen master called. The tenth poem talks about how the fully-enlightened herdsman returns to the city to help others reach enlightenment. This poem is called, which can be translated as "entering society with bliss-bringing hands" (i.e. hands that teach how to reach enlightenment).

Trivia

 * In Shippūden episode 376, when Yamato is performing this technique to suppress Kurama's chakra from leaking out of Naruto, he got motion sickness from riding the ever-shaking palanquin. As a gag, the kanji on Yamato's hand changed to, as he was on the verge to vomit.
 * Sakura Haruno has expressed in learning the technique despite it being implausible for her due to her lack of Wood Release.