Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-26118325-20150227103217/@comment-27082825-20150227152730

Sharingan can see chakra; can't see through solid objects. Also, seeing tenketsu isn't a innate ability of the sharingan. That would be Byakugan. Seeing through smoke and such was anime only. Check the page. Sharingan being a derivitive of Rinnegan just means that that handicap probably came along with it.