The biggest problem with this story is that it shows a distinct lack of
understanding of just what a souke
(main house/main family) and a bunke (branch house/branch family) actually are.
"Main" and "branch" houses are relational terms, kind of like "father" and
"child" and were often associated with physical
houses. There was only enough "room" in the "house" (often literally) for the
head of the house, the head's wife, the head's
parents, the head's unmarried children, and the heir's spouse (and possibly
kids, the heir's heir's spouse and/or unmarried
kids, etc.). Anyone who didn't fit into one of those roles would have to move
out. One way to do this (for a male, anyway)
was to "build" their own "house" with the help and support of the house they
originally came from. This new (and often
physical) house would be viewed as a "child" of the "main" house, and owe it
allegiance akin to the loyalty that a child
owes its father under Confucian philosophy.
The other way to get out would be to marry out, and into anoter house... in
which case, the person marrying out was
basically viewed as dying while a "new" person would "come into existance" in
their new house... and that's a drastic
oversimplification. In any case, the seal is canonically not used on members of
the Hyuuga souke, and the only way for
Hinata to wind up in one of the bunke is for her to marry into one.
Yes, this means that even the Hyuuga "main house" has its own "main house" to
which it owes loyalty, it's just that said
house: (A) doesn't have the Byakugan, (B ) isn't named Hyuuga, (C ) no longer
exists (in the sense of having been wiped
out), or (D) can be described by more than one of the above descriptions. The
Japanese emperors legitimitized their power
in large part by claiming that their house was the original "main house" from
which all of the other Japanese houses
"branched".
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