Sage

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Naruto as a sage.

A sage (仙人, Sennin or セージ, seijin) is someone who is able to utilize senjutsu (仙術, Sage Techniques), and has mastered the art of Sage Mode. "Sage" can also refer to an individual renowned for their great power, wisdom, or holy standing.

Senjutsu

Main articles: Sage Mode and Senjutsu Senjutsu (仙術, Sage Techniques) refers to a specialized field of jutsu that allows the user to sense and then gather the natural energy around a person. Senjutsu practitioners can then learn to draw the energy of nature inside of them blending it with their own chakra (created from spiritual and physical energy within the shinobi), adding a new dimension of power to the Sage's chakra, resulting in the creation of senjutsu chakra (仙術チャクラ, senjutsu chakura). Those who are untrained in senjutsu cannot sense senjutsu chakra, or the natural energy needed for its creation.

This new chakra enables the user to enter an empowered state called Sage Mode, which can then drastically increase the strength of all ninjutsu, genjutsu, and taijutsu. A person who is able to use senjutsu is called a sage (仙人, sennin) when taught by the toads of Myobokuzan or Seijin (セージ), which also means sage, when taught senjutsu in the Seijin Order.

Other Meanings

• Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki, more commonly known as the Sage of Six Paths (六道仙人, Rikudō Sennin, English TV: The Sage of the Six Paths), was one of the first to be born with chakra, he saved the world from the Ten-Tails and created ninshū, a predecessor of the modern ninjutsu. He was capable of using the Six Paths Senjutsu which he, post-mortem, transfers as the Six Paths Sage Mode to his son's reincarnation.
• Son Gokū has the moniker of Great Sage Equaling Heaven (斉天大聖, Seiten Taisei) and is also called the King of the Sage Monkeys (仙猿の王, Sen'en no Ō), although neither of the terms are written with the same kanji as the title "Sage".

Trivia

• The term 仙人 (Sennin), refers to the Japanese term of Chinese sages and practitioners of Taoist ways, who have gained immortality and incredible powers through the manipulation of qi, or natural energy through their body by becoming ascetics and living on mountains, where qi is said to gather at the most and to start flowing from into the world. The training and measures needed to become a Sage in Naruto is just as vigorous and demanding, and similar in some regards, requiring one to have massive reserves of chakra, and come to adopt natural energy, not for the pursuit of immortality, but to become harmonised with the flow of the world around them.
  • In the fourth databook, Hagoromo is called "Rikudō no Shinsen" (六道の神仙) on one occasion. Although both "sennin" and "shinsen" can be translated as "sage", the latter is an archaic way to refer to supernatural beings and even gods.
• Mount Myōboku, Ryūchi Cave, and the Shikkotsu Forest are called the "Three Big Unexplored 'Sage' Regions" (「仙人」三大秘境, "Sennin" Sandai Hikyō).
• When Kabuto Yakushi used Sage Mode, he described himself as a "perfect sage" (完ペキな仙人, kanpeki-na sennin), as opposed to Orochimaru, who lacked the body to attain Sage Mode. This suggests that a sage is simply someone who can use senjutsu.

See also

• Seijin Order
• Sage Mode
• Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki
• Son Gokū
• Keifuku
• Arctic Sage Mode
• Great Spider Heiress
• Spider Sage Mode