Do you lose the honor from the fudo ring if played via asako usoharaa?
Asako usohara
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Do you lose the honor from the fudo ring if played via asako usoharaa?
No, you do not.
The bit about his ability counting as "playing it by its own text" is for interaction with such effects as those on the Fudo's Assurances Celestial; it doesn't mean actually resolving any of the effects of that text, such as Honor loss.