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Are the eye techniques in Naruto (Byakugan, Sharingan, Rinnegan) based on true
events? Or are they just myth or a fiction created by Masashi-Sensei? Anyone
has any references or a story behind it?


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Are eye techniques in Naruto based on anything real?


According to the Naruto wiki page on
[dōjutsu](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/D%C5%8Djutsu), there are two potential
points of inspiration for the dōjutsu techniques
(rinnegan/sharigan/byuakugan).

The first:

> The concept of dōjutsu may have been inspired by Futaro Yamada's 1959 novel,
> The Kōga Ninja Scrolls (甲賀忍法帖, Kōga Ninpōchō), which featured two warring
> clans of ninja that had developed mutations and abilities through selective
> breeding, with the young heirs to each clan possessing mysterious dōjutsu.

Or alternately,

> Another possible inspiration for dōjutsu in the series may also be found in
> the Journey to the West classic's titular character, the Monkey God-King,
> Sun Wukong: After having eaten all of the 'peaches of immortality', the
> 'pills of longevity' and drunk all of the 'wine of immortality', and then
> was captured after a long rebellion against Heaven, the Monkey God-King, Sun
> Wukong, was then sealed into Lao Tzu's Eight Trigram furnace to be burned to
> ash in order for Lao Tzu to reclaim his pills of longevity. But after 49
> days, Sun Wukong broke out--stronger than ever--his body having been refined
> by the flames instead of being reduced to ash, His eyes had also become a
> fiery red and golden colour, becoming known as his "Fiery-eyes golden-gaze"
> (火眼金睛, Huǒyǎn-Jīnjīng); an eye condition that allowed Sun Wukong to now see
> what's really there just by looking and the ability to see and recognise the
> real form of evil despite whatever form that it took on — but, likewise, it
> also gave him a weakness to smoke, fogging his vision.


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