Uchiha (うちは一族 (Uchiha Ichizoku))

The Uchiha Clan is one of the four noble clans of Konohagakure, reputed to be the village's strongest because of their Sharingan and natural battle prowess. After helping found Konoha decades ago, the Uchiha grew increasingly isolated from the village's affairs, culminating in most of their deaths during the Uchiha Clan Downfall. Few Uchiha now survives into the present day.
The Uchiha are descendants of Indra Ōtsutsuki, the elder son of Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki. Through Indra, the Uchiha inherited Hagoromo's "eyes", granting them powerful spiritual energy and chakra. As part of the so-called "Curse of Hatred" first displayed by Indra, Uchiha are subject to powerful emotions: these emotions typically start as love for a friend or family member that then become overpowering hatred when the object of their love is lost. This loss, whether actually experienced or merely threatened, awakens an Uchiha's Sharingan. It is due to the Sharingan that the Uchiha have received much of their fame and notoriety. They are a prideful clan, willing to fight to the death to protect their dignity and the people they love.

Naming Traditions

Feminine names

• Miko

Masculine names

• Ryu
• Izuna

Unisex names

• Hikaru

Family names

It’s Uchiha tradition to name your children after deceased family members. It’s bad luck to name them after an alive one. This makes it so pretty much every name is a family name.
The name Madara hasn't been used since Uchiha Madara had deflected from the village.

Culture

Major language groups and dialects

The Uchiha have their own primary clan language, like most other old clans, that is taught before the common village language. The language itself is very intimate in nature so it translates poetically (ex. Madara referring to fighting as dancing).

Culture and cultural heritage

The Uchiha place great pride in their family line and their ability to recall it. Any “good” Uchiha can recite it by heart and trace their lineage all the way back to the first Uchiha.
Purity can play out negatively when clan members display indifference to the beliefs of others and are overly hesitant to adopt new practices that could help the clan. It clashes with the ever-changing, fluid nature of the Senju clan, which is mixed with lots of different shinobi who practice different abilities. The Uchiha are proud of their thousand-year-old history and are confident in their ability to preserve their customs into the future.
Mottos:

• “Do not underestimate the Uchiha”
• “Burn half as long, but twice as bright”
• “Fan the flames”

Shared customary codes and values

If an Uchiha steals organs from you they want you to die. If an Uchiha gives you organs then they will die for you.
Typically, the neck is viewed as an intimate area to be protected.
Collective harmony is emphasized less so than the Senju clan, yet there is an ardent expectation that each individual will work their hardest to become powerful assets for the clan as shinobi. In a battle-oriented clan such as the Uchiha, those who are weak are looked down upon, as they are a burden in battle and cannot independently fend for themselves.
Meritocracy is rewarded as long as it achieves the clan’s own ends.
Honor is prized as a life or death matter. Clan members must swear to protect their own personal honor, which in turn reflects the collective honor of the Uchiha name. Their sense of honor is far more intense than that of the Nara, Yamanaka, or even Senju clans.
Above all, trust is the highest value in the Uchiha because it leads directly to love.
Ambitious and willful, Uchiha clan members work towards their absolute limit to perfect ninjutsu techniques. There is the cultural belief in perseverance to overcome hardship. Uchiha parents expect excellence in their children’s abilities.

Average technological level

While members of the Uchiha clan are immensely talented they are known to have rather mediocre medical ninjutsu.

Common Etiquette rules

Uchiha value hygiene and displaying a pleasing appearance. Cleanliness is also seen in how Uchiha behave in the home and hearth. There are no paw prints or stains on the floor, only clean, simple tatami mats and a neatly laid out interior. Young Uchiha children are trained by their parents to promote an organized countenance to the outside world. Respect and order is valued highly in the clan.

Common Dress code

They have always favored high-collared outfits with their clan's symbol proudly emblazoned on the back. During the Warring States Period, the Uchiha refused to have any armor on their back in order to proudly display their clan's symbol. Over the generations, their attire has changed with their attire initially consisting of a dark-colored mantle along with pants, which later became simple shirts and pants, all the while retaining the high collar.
Uchiha usually cover their necks with high collared shirts mainly to provide special ventilation from the flames they breathe from the mouth and over the centuries they have developed a complex where they do not show the collarbone to anyone unfamiliar or foreign.

Common Customs, traditions and rituals

Children are taught to respect parents in accordance with Confucian values, as well as the expectation that they will honor their ancestors by keeping in accordance with tradition and virtue inspired by the Shinto religion. Parents go to the Naka shrine to pray for their offspring’s prosperity and health. Clan members also attend smaller, lesser-known shrines that have an illustrious history with miracles and are well respected historically.
During peacetime, the Uchiha would shove clan members who hadn’t managed to awaken their Sharingan yet into the birthing rooms of their closest female relatives.
The Uchiha clan as a whole raise children together, to help the parents and to form strong bonds. It's not unusual to see a group children toting after one adult.

Coming of Age Rites

The Grand Fireball jutsu is considered a sort of coming of age for young Uchiha. Uchiha are very commonly predisposed towards a fire element (probably genetically), and the Grand Fireball is a beginner jutsu that is a good gateway for young Uchiha to more advanced fire jutsu.
It’s not uncommon for young Uchiha to burn the sides of their mouths performing fire jutsu. Curling their fingers around the mouth is a great way to avoid this, because it makes it easier to guide the chakra outwards instead of back towards them. For this reason, burning the mouth or having to curl fingers around the mouth makes someone appear inexperienced. It’s also not uncommon to set the surrounding area on fire, hence most early attempts being done over a body of water. It’s a source of pride for a young Uchiha to successfully perform this jutsu with an unburned mouth and no hands. (And also without setting anything unexpectedly on fire.)
The Sharingan is another obvious coming of age, but that falls out of importance during times of peace, since there are fewer children traumatized into obtaining it quickly. The Grand Fireball sticks around and becomes tradition though.

Common Myths and Legends

Aside from Uchiha marriage traditions being based on the legend of the ten’nyo and her fisherman lover who produced the first Uchiha, one thing also to Uchiha courtship is the sacredness they hold for rivers like the Nakano that figure greatly into their mythology. According to this legend, a ten’nyo bathing in a river (the Naka) had her hagoromo stolen by a fisherman who was entranced with her beauty. Her hagoromo--or, celestial clothing--was needed in order to return to heaven. As the tale would go, the ten’nyo and the fisherman made a deal to help raise his motherless son that resulted in them falling in love and the ten’nyo being properly courted. Alongside their marriage tradition that centers around the non-Uchiha (or non-family member for inter-clan relations) giving their betrothed a hagoromo to wear to signify the ten’nyo’s hagoromo being returned, the Uchiha hold water with just as much sacredness. Rivers are the source of spiritual energy (Yin Release) that Uchiha commonly inherit, seeing them as sacred channels for wisdom, insight, and the most ideal venues for significant life events, the most important being romantic courtship that demands the presence of a river in order for the relationship to be blessed with abundance and good fortune. It was also the reason why the Uchiha settled along the Nakano, it hallowed ground from where many of their important rites and ceremonies would be carried out.

Historical figures

• Madara Uchiha
• Izuna Uchiha
• Butsuma Uchiha
• Fugaku Uchiha
• Itachi Uchiha

Ideals

Beauty Ideals

To the Uchiha, eyes truly are the window of the soul. Capable of harnessing and containing emotions no other part of the body is capable of expressing, from a young age Uchiha are taught to understand the language of eyes and looks at the merest glance. To be able to discern when an enemy has good or bad intentions, hiding emotions–a breadth of minutiae that is completely lost on the average person. Indeed, Uchiha are able to convey a depth of emotion some people can never fathom, and for an outsider, it’s extremely easy to become mesmerized in seeing intricacies of visual communication and wonder what is being said between people without saying a thing. This, too, goes for interpersonal relationships.

Gender Ideals

Any Uchiha woman who woke her Sharingan during childbirth - either as the mother or as the midwife or an attendant - would get just as much respect for it as any other method for awakening the Sharingan.
The Uchiha clan is patrilineal with the position of the head passing from father to son.

Courtship Ideals

Typically, when an Uchiha is set on courting someone, they will present a personalized gift for their beloved and ask them for permission to do so. If they agree, they accept the gift and the process begins.
At the crux of the courtship where the Uchiha proposes, a second gift is presented: a feathered kimono or another feathered garment (like a mantle or haori), a hagoromo. Though typically passed down from mother to son, more modern times do it from parent to child, if none exists, another can be made to continue the tradition anew.
Possessing all the trappings of a traditional Shinto-sequence wedding, there is an additional ceremony to join with it. As the non-Uchiha wears their own traditional raiment, typically, they start the wedding until the last ceremonial ornament—the hagoromo—is given by the non-Uchiha for the Uchiha to wear before the congregation to represent the fisherman returning the ten'nyo’s hagoromo once she’d fulfilled her promise.
At weddings, they have a particular dance that they must memorize and perform for their partner. This is true even of civilians who do not possess the Sharingan, since the Uchiha value memory and replication in all their members. In shinobi weddings, the dance ends with a display of their best fire jutsu, aimed towards the sky and intended to impress. Given the strenuous activity of the dance, this is a greater testament to their endurance (using what breath and energy they have left) and control (performing quickly under pressure). Afterward, they present themself to their fiancee, who has been watching, where they are either slapped or kissed–depending on whether they performed adequately. Marriages can be called off if the dance was sloppy or the jutsu too weak. They perform not only to impress their partner but to also do their lineage proud.
Since all Uchiha can (or at least should be able to) trace back their family line with great accuracy, the partner who is most closely related to the main branch is typically the one posed with a choice. (A choice which is null in the case that one of them is a shinobi, since the shinobi would be expected to perform.) They can either A) choose to show of the power and skill of their family line (and their connection to the main branch) by performing or B) placing the burden on the other person, who is required to impress them and prove they are a worthy partner.

Relationship Ideals

Every time Uchiha see the object of their affections, they remember everything about them that caught the Uchiha’s attention. Everything about that person that’s worth loving. (Everything about that person that irritates them too, which is also why it’s conversely so hard to gain the romantic attention of an Uchiha). So there’s hate, and there’s love, and there’s never any dulling of those emotions.
It is very, very common for Uchiha, particularly shinobi, to be attracted to people who can rival their skill, or best them.
Uchiha are known to prize and covet spouses and lovers with unusual eye colors. This is especially so for love interests with unusual dojutsu, and it’s not unknown for marriages to be arranged with people with unusual or unique visual prowess with the hope that those powers might pass on to the Sharingan and add more powers to it, or even yield offspring with a combination of both.
The Uchiha often participate in arranged marriages, as families consider what matches would best suit their needs. However, marriages for love are not uncommon and usually understood, especially if the partner is one of “their persons.” There is a balance between this understanding and what is considered a person’s duty though. Duty and the person’s role in the clan come first, and people who choose an individual (especially someone outside the clan) over their duty are not looked well upon.
There is a thing called the Uchiha kiss. Two persons touch each other with their foreheads and noses, staying put for several seconds while looking in the eyes of each other. This kiss is considered to be the highest form of trust between two clan members or a clan member and an outsider. In this position, it is impossible to avoid being caught in a Sharingan genjutsu, so when you make this gesture, you place your wellbeing in the hands of the Uchiha you are kissing and show that you trust them not to harm you. Likewise, if an Uchiha initiates this kiss, they are showing that they mean no harm, demonstrating that they have their Sharingan deactivated. Uchiha consider this kiss to be much more intimate than a usual kiss. The usual kiss doesn't let you look into the eyes of the other person, and eye contact is essential in the Uchiha culture. While this is an intimate gesture of deep affection and trust, it doesn't carry sexual innuendo and is not linked to Uchiha sexual customs. Spouses, siblings, or lovers may practice the variation of the Uchiha kiss with Sharingan activated. This way, the kiss is still not considered to be indecent, and it is not a taboo to kiss this way in public. With activated Sharingan an Uchiha can transfer a chosen range of feelings or emotions or information to the person they kiss, and this is one of the forms of family bonding.

Parent ethnicities

• Ōtsutsuki

Related Locations

• Konohagakure