Kokujin

Legend of the Five Rings card from The Fall of Otosan Uchi

Card Type

Personality

Force

4

Chi

4

Honor Requirement

-

Gold Cost

13

Personal Honor

0

Clan

Unaligned

Keywords

Double Chi, Experienced 2 Hitomi Kokujin, Unique, Shadowlands, Tattooed

Card Text

After Kokjin enters play: Lose 6 Honor.
Kokujin will only straighten during your Straighten Phase.
After a duel involving Kokujin ends: Bow him.
Personalities lose Double Chi while facing Kokujin in a duel.
Limited: Bow Kokujin and target a bowed Personality: Kokujin duels him. Destroy the duel's loser.

Legality

Four Winds (Gold), Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: If Kokujin Exp. gains a Wave Tattoo, he may then only straighten during the targeted player's Straighten Phases.
  Does this also apply to someone who has a Wave tattoo and a Spider tattoo ?
  A: Yes. Jeff Alexander, "post for 30-31 January 2003", 1 Feb 2003
• Q: Please could you tell me: 1) Do you need to be winning the duel to "choose to lose" it? Or can you be losing, and still "choose to lose"? 2) The phrase "consequences of losing": does this include all consequences? eg: my opponent used Hojatsu Sensei on me and I lost the duel: is the bowing effect also negated, as well as the other consequences of losing the duel? 3) If an effect states that it happens if you win (eg: Kokujin, and you choose to take control of the other personality) then is this still an effect of losing, since it affects the loser in some way? 4) Can you choose to rehonor 1 personality, and take 1 attachment back to your hand? 5) If taking 2 attachments back to your hand, is the total cost 4 or 6? Many thanks. Sorry for all the questions, but most of these came up in game play, leading to... a spirited dispute...
  A: 1) Do you need to be winning the duel to "choose to lose" it? Or can you be losing, and still "choose to lose"? You may always make the choice; it need not have any effect.
  2) The phrase "consequences of losing": does this include all consequences? eg: my opponent used Hojatsu Sensei on me and I lost the duel: is the bowing effect also negated, as well as the other consequences of losing the duel? Anything which is dependent on the outcome of the duel is a consequence of the duel.
  Note that this does not include effects which are dependent on the consequences, so that an effect triggered by a Personality dying as a consequence of a duel is not itself a consequence of the duel.
  3) If an effect states that it happens if you win (eg: Kokujin, and you choose to take control of the other personality) then is this still an effect of losing, since it affects the loser in some way? Consequences of winning which are applied to the loser are consequences of winning, not consequences of losing,
  4) Can you choose to rehonor 1 personality, and take 1 attachment back to your hand? No. See here and here.
  5) If taking 2 attachments back to your hand, is the total cost 4 or 6? 4, as described above. Alex Jones, "Spirited Dispute", 6 Aug 2014