Yin Release (陰遁, Inton, Viz: Dark Style or Shadow Style) is a nature transformation that exists outside the five basic elemental natures. Like its counterpart, Yang Release, Yin Release is little-explored in the series. Yin Release uses spiritual energy to control imagination, creating form out of nothingness. Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki combined Yin and Yang into Yin–Yang Release, notably allowing him to create the nine tailed beasts.
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Yin Release has tended to be inherited among the Uchiha clan, descendants of Hagoromo. Jin no Sho notes, however, that Uchiha clansmen don't usually make any significant use of Yin Release. Certain other clans employ Yin Release via their hiden skills, notably the Nara clan, who use Yin Release to manipulate their own shadows. Most genjutsu also fall under the categorization of Yin Release.