Kakita Torikago

Legend of the Five Rings card from Shadowlands

Card Type

Personality

Force

0

Chi

1

Honor Requirement

5

Gold Cost

6

Personal Honor

2

Clan

Crane

Keywords

Courtier, Crane Clan

Card Text

Limited: If you control the Imperial Favor, bow Torikago and target a bowed Personality: While Torikago remains bowed and in play, you may negate his straightening, and while those conditions remain true as well as while you remain in control of the Favor, the target will not straighten.

Legality

Clan Wars (Imperial)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: with all of the new courtier cards in APC, I noticed that Kakita Atoshi (soul of Kakita Torikago) has the Samurai trait, while the original one actually had a courtier trait. Clarification of this please.
  A: Play him as written. Jeff Alexander, "replies for 14 September", 15 Sep 2001
• Q: Ok, here it goes:
  Kakita Atoshi: Crane Clan Samurai Soul of Kakita Torikago Atoshi can remain bowed. Political Limited: Bow while you have the Imperial Favor. Select a bowed Personality. The target Personality may not straighten until after one of the following occurs: Atoshi straightens or is destroyed, or you lose the Imperial Favor.
  Player 1 has an Atoshi and another personality in play, and has the favor. On my turn, I attacked with my personality, and now it has come home bowed from the battle. Once his turn starts, he uses Atoshi to keep my guy bowed. He then spends the favor on something (say, Sezaru) and then bows for it again. Now, since he *lost* the favor, which *sounds* like it meets the conditions on Atoshi, can my guy straighten at the beginning of my turn? Or is Atoshi able to keep my guy bowed, because he regained the favor?
  A: As soon as either Atoshi straightens (or leaves play) or your opponent loses the Favor, Atoshi's effect ends. You may straighten your Personality on your turn in this example. What your opponent should have done was use the Favor, lobby to get it back, and THEN use Atoshi. Jeff Alexander, "replies to 8 September", 11 Sep 2001
• Q: While Kakita Torikago was a Crane Clan Courtier, His "Soul of" personality is a samurai. I know that this is not a MRP, and that Torikago is still a courtier, but is this normal and intended ?
  A: The card is correct as printed.
  Zen Faulkes! * Crab Clan Scholar * Unaligned Rules Deputy Steel and Iron, home of the L5R Rules Archive: http://www.planet.net.au/~zfaulkes/o-ushi.html Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 8 August 2001", 10 Aug 2001