Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-3001903-20160813043039/@comment-732150-20160814161414

Thekillman wrote: Omnibender wrote: Except no other Wood Release user between Asura and Hashirama is known, so it's already something like a "once in centuries" occurrence. Senju name comes from them having skills in all areas of jutsu, we've known that for ages. This means nothing. We don't know anything of the roughly 900 year period between Hashirama and Ashura. Considering the massive changes that happened to the world in the century or so that the Villages exist, the Senju could've been a clan of wood-release spamming ninja until Hashirama. And we wouldn't know. If Wood Release had appeared in other shinobi before Hashirama, even close to him in time, it would not have been repeatedly called a jutsu only he could perform so many times.