Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-1872728-20151008094957/@comment-734582-20151008112013

Georgio722 wrote: So I have this theory where Wood Release is actually not a Kekkei Genkai. I think it is, it's just very rare. I do believe that it originates from the Shinju though, and that Hashirama just was an extremely powerful incarnation of a Sage's body, one that was pretty close to the original.