Hashirama, Tobirama and the Senju line to Tsunade
The Senju family tree in Naruto is short, and most of it stands behind the village of Konoha. Hashirama Senju led the Senju clan, founded the village with Madara Uchiha and became the First Hokage.2 His younger brother Tobirama followed him as the Second Hokage and taught Hiruzen Sarutobi, who became the Third.2 The two brothers are revealed at length in the war chapters, 501 and 520 among them.2
Hashirama married Mito Uzumaki, so the Senju family tree joins the Uzumaki clan in its first generation. Mito was also the first host of the nine-tailed fox Kurama, which chapter 500 calls the burden of Hashirama’s wife.2 The parents of Hashirama and Tobirama are not named in the sources opened for this page, so the chart draws them as one symbol.
The next generation is a gap. Chapter 149 calls Tsunade the granddaughter of Hashirama and Mito, but the manga, as the sources summarise it, never names the parent who stands between them.2 The chart fills that place with one symbol marked as unnamed and draws no guess.
Tsunade had a younger brother, Nawaki, and a lover, Dan Kato. Both died pursuing the same dream of becoming Hokage, as chapter 172 tells.2 Tsunade herself becomes the Fifth Hokage and is succeeded as Sixth by Kakashi after the war.2 The sources name no child of hers, so the Senju line on the chart ends with her, and the clan reaches the present only through its ties to other families.
Kushina, Minato and Naruto
Naruto Uzumaki begins the manga as an orphan with the fox sealed inside him, and Part I does not say who his parents were. Chapter 1 shows the Fourth Hokage sealing Kurama in a newborn boy, and only in Part II does the manga reveal that the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, was his father. Chapter 367 makes that tie plain.2 His mother, Kushina Uzumaki, is named as Minato’s wife and Naruto’s mother in chapter 382.2
Kushina followed Mito as host of Kurama, and when Naruto was born she and Minato sealed the fox in their son. Both parents died before the story begins.23 Chapters 498 to 500 tell how Kushina met Minato and how the seal was made.2 On the chart an orange dotted arrow runs from Mito to Kushina and from Kushina to Naruto, the chain of hosts.
Mito, Kushina, Naruto and Karin all belong to the Uzumaki clan, and Popverse calls Karin the only true cousin of Naruto the series shows.23 The manga does not set out how any of them descend from one another, so the chart draws no blood line between Mito and Kushina and leaves Karin off. Naruto is related to the Senju family tree by clan and by the chain of hosts, and not by any parent line the manga draws.
In the epilogue, chapter 700, Naruto has married Hinata Hyuga, and they have two children, Boruto, the elder, and Himawari.2 Naruto named Boruto, whose name means bolt, after Neji Hyuga, whose name means screw, and named Himawari after the sunflowers Neji loved.2 The sequel Boruto, drawn by Mikio Ikemoto and written by Ukyo Kodachi from 2016, follows these children and is outside this chart.1
Asura, Indra and the Sage of Six Paths
The war chapters take the Senju family tree back to a myth. Hagoromo Otsutsuki, the Sage of Six Paths, was a son of Kaguya, and he had two sons. Indra was the elder and the more gifted, and Asura was the son Hagoromo chose as his heir for his gift for making friends.23
The manga does not make Asura the father of the Senju in a line the chart could draw. It says instead that the souls of the two brothers are born again. Hashirama is a reincarnation of Asura and Madara one of Indra, and in the present Naruto carries Asura’s soul and Sasuke carries Indra’s.23 Chapters 385 and 671 are cited for these ties.2 Popverse calls the Senju, Uchiha, Hyuga and Uzumaki distant cousins, all tracing their line to the Sage.3
This page keeps those two kinds of tie apart. A solid line joins a parent to a child only where the manga names both. A dashed teal arrow marks reincarnation, from Asura to Hashirama and Naruto and from Indra to Madara and Sasuke, and it says nothing about blood. Some guides online make Asura the direct ancestor of the Senju and Uzumaki, and that is a reading the chapters cited here do not state.
Where the Uchiha meet the Senju family tree
The Uchiha stand on this chart only where they touch the Senju and Uzumaki. Madara Uchiha was Hashirama’s friend in childhood, and the two of them founded Konoha together after their clans made peace.2 Tobirama never trusted Madara and disapproved of his brother’s friendship with him, even after the clans were reconciled, as chapter 501 tells.2 On the chart a blue dashed line joins Hashirama to Madara as friends, and a line of distrust runs from Tobirama to Madara.
Sasuke Uchiha appears on the chart for one reason, the reincarnation of Indra that sets him against Naruto, as the soul of Madara was once set against Hashirama.2 The rest of the Uchiha, including Sasuke’s own family with Sakura and their daughter Sarada, lie outside the Senju family tree and are left off.2
The Senju family tree chapter by chapter
Each card gives the ties the manga reveals in one span of chapters. Part I runs from chapter 1 to 238 and Part II from 245 to 700, with a side story about Kakashi between them.1 Read each card after its chapters.
Part I, chapters 1 to 238
The Hokage and the fox
Spoiler note. Nothing beyond Part I.
- Chapter 1 shows the Fourth Hokage sealing Kurama in the newborn Naruto.
- Chapter 149 names Tsunade as the granddaughter of Hashirama and Mito, and chapter 172 tells of Nawaki and Dan.
Part II, chapters 245 to 499
Naruto’s parents
Spoiler note. Naruto’s parents are named.
- Chapter 367 reveals Minato as Naruto’s father, and chapter 382 names Kushina as his mother.
- Madara is shown as Hashirama’s friend from childhood.
Sources2
Chapters 500 to 699
The war and the Sage
Spoiler note. The origin of the clans is told.
- Chapters 498 to 500 tell Kushina’s story and the sealing, with Mito as the first host.
- Tobirama distrusts Madara, and chapter 671 links the clans to Asura and Indra.
Chapter 700
The epilogue
Spoiler note. The ending is told in full.
- Naruto and Hinata are married, with Boruto and Himawari.
Sources2
How to read this Senju family tree
A square is a man and a circle is a woman, and a diamond marks a person whose sex is not given. A double line is a couple, and the line that drops from it leads to their children. A cross marks a death. The two diamonds on the Senju side stand for the unnamed parents of Hashirama and Tobirama and for the unnamed parent of Tsunade.
Each clan wears its own colour, with a letter at the corner of every member. Green is the Senju, red is the Uzumaki, indigo is the Uchiha, purple is the Hyuga and grey is the Otsutsuki of the Sage. Minato has no clan colour because the sources name no clan for his family.
Move the story position back to Part I and Naruto has no parent lines. The Fourth Hokage stands apart under his title, as the reader first meets him, and Kushina is not drawn. The parent lines start at Part II, the part in which chapter 367 reveals Minato as the father.2 To build a family tree of your own story, open this chart in the editor or start from the story charts. The symbols are set out in the genogram symbols, and three generations of another animated family are drawn on the Simpsons genogram.
Questions about the Senju family tree
Is Naruto a Senju
Not by any parent line in the manga. He is an Uzumaki through Kushina, and he carries the soul of Asura, whose earlier reincarnation was Hashirama.23
How is Tsunade related to Hashirama
Chapter 149 calls Tsunade the granddaughter of Hashirama Senju and Mito Uzumaki.2
Who was Hashirama’s wife
Mito Uzumaki, the first host of Kurama, which ties the Senju to the Uzumaki clan.2
People and sources
A page of its own lists all 19 characters on the chart, each with a short note and the sources for it, and the three numbered sources this article cites. It also gives the credits of the pictures and this page as a reference in the APA, MLA, Chicago and Harvard styles, ready to copy.