A New Teacher

Legend of the Five Rings card from Honor Bound

Card Type: Strategy
Gold Cost: 3
Card Text: Limited, : Put a target Sensei in your hand into play. Discard any other non-Personality Sensei cards you have in play.
Focus Value: 2
Legality: Hidden Emperor (Jade)
Deck: Fate

Printings

Rarity: Rare
Flavor Text: The Shashakar passed his Bright Eye spells to his successor. "When I am gone, you will need these," he said, and lifted high the Pale Eye's pearl.
Artist: April Lee
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast

Q: Is it really possible to have two Sensei on one Stronghold? A: Yes. If you play Forgotten Lesson, your original Sensei "does not affect play," which means you pretend it isn't even there. You can legally play A New Teacher while Forgotten Lesson is in effect. After Forgotten Lesson wears off, voila! Two Sensei on one Stronghold. Note, however, that you can't put a second Sensei on this way using the Stronghold ability of Temples of the Crow. In that case, discarding the Sensei is a cost of putting the new one on. The Imperial Herald, Issue 16, p. 12

Q: If sensei cards are no longer fate cards that go in your deck, how does that affect A New Teacher from Honor Bound which lets you put another sensei into play from your hand?
A: Not answered since I don't have the Wrath of the Emperor rulesheet.
Zen Faulkes! * Crab Clan Scholar
* This answer not guaranteed to be accurate after Wrath of the Emperor releases. I'm answering this one because it's a general Sensei question, not about this particular card. Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 16 July 2004", 17 Jul 2004
Q: Tom O'Brien writes: Hello everyone. Some people I know decided that they wanted to use Hantei Sensei to Hantei a Sensei already in play. Is this legal?
It's legal in that one can name a Sensei, but it won't do much in most games - basically, it would prevent a player from playing a new copy of the same Sensei (through the Temple of the Crow, or A New Teacher).
Basically, it won't work. But it's legal. :)
A: Correct. Sorry I missed this question the first time around. Jeff Alexander, "Rulings for 23 January 2001", 25 Jan 2001