in the 2012 series, splinter is again introduced as hamato yoshi, a zen philosopher and expert of ninjutsu. his relationship with oroku saki is mostly intact, with the hamato and foot clans later revealed to have had a long-term conflict with each other. despite being raised as brothers, both yoshi and saki become rivals due to their affection for tang shen, and saki wishes to discredit yoshi in front of her. yoshi loses his temper and the altercation ends their friendship, culminating with saki learning of his true heritage and starting a battle that burns down the hamato clan monastery, killing shen and, seemingly, shen and yoshi's daughter, miwa.