Kakita Shijin

Legend of the Five Rings card from Anvil of Despair

Card Type

Personality

Force

0

Chi

2

Honor Requirement

6

Gold Cost

3

Personal Honor

3

Clan

Crane

Keywords

Crane Clan, Poet

Card Text

Repeatable Reaction, w: After one of your Personalities is destroyed, gain honor equal to the Personality's Personal Honor.

Legality

Clan Wars (Imperial)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rulings

• Can be used after any death (e.g., Sacrificial Altar). [RD, 15 January 1997] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 108

Rules Q&A

• Q: #1. Lesser of Two Evils (KYD 94) reads:
  Political Limited: Bow and destroy one of your Personalities to play this card. Until the beginning of your next turn, reduce all honor gains and losses by 2, to a minimum of 1. You may not play this card if you have gained honor this turn.
  If I have not yet gained honor on my turn, is it a legal play to:
  1) Play Lesser of Two Evils 2) Bow and destroy my Lady Kitsune as a part of the cost of the action. 3) Respond to the destruction of Lady Kitsune as a part of paying the cost of the action by bowing Kakita Shijin to gain 5 honor. 4) Then the effect of Lesser of Two Evils kicks in, reducing all Honor gains and losses by 2 until the beginning of my next turn.
  A: Yes. Jeff Alexander, "post for 2 June 2003", 3 Jun 2003
• Q: So if this scenario:
  I control Hoturi, and my opponent is some scorpion scum personality. I challenge him to a duel. He focuses. I focus a Focus, adding 10 thanks to a Double Chi. He focuses, I focus another Focus. I should now have twenty-five or so personal honor. Scorpion-scum says strike, and flips up Fatal Mistake and Karmic Strike.
  Will I then get twenty-five honor if Kakita Shijin writes a poem about the hero Hoturi?
  Yes.
  I thought that Focus gains were only until the end of the duel, which would mean that his ersonal Honor returned to normal as he died, then was just 5 when he was checked by the Poet.
  A: Death of the loser happens during duel resolution, which is still during the duel. He will still have his focusing bonuses when he dies. Jeff Alexander, "post for 31 July 2002", 1 Aug 2002
• Q: So if this scenario:
  I control Hoturi, and my opponent is some scorpion scum personality. I challenge him to a duel. He focuses. I focus a Focus, adding 10 thanks to a Double Chi. He focuses, I focus another Focus. I should now have twenty-five or so personal honor. Scorpion-scum says strike, and flips up Fatal Mistake and Karmic Strike.
  Will I then get twenty-five honor if Kakita Shijin writes a poem about the hero Hoturi?
  A: Yes. Jeff Alexander, "post for 30 July 2002", 31 Jul 2002
• Q: And you can't use your card effects that trigger for destroyed personalities (Duty to the Clan, Be Prepared To Dig Two Graves, etc.). In Open, Kakita Shijin cannot write poems about dead people if they were bowed when they died.
  A: He always could and still can, regardless of whether this ruling was kept. Shijin reacts after the Personality dies. [card text] Dead cards are not considered bowed. [DA rulebook p. 61] Jeff Alexander, "post for 5 April 2002 pt. 1", 5 Apr 2002
• Q: Does that mean then that Kakita Shijin and Memorial won't work with No One Wins active?
  A: They work. Those gains aren't from destroying cards. Jeff Alexander, "post for 7 November 2001", 8 Nov 2001