A topic from AEG's L5R CCG Rules forum, copied for Oracle of the Void from a copy of the forum saved in October 2015, so pages it didn't save are missing. Players' names are left out; the rules officials are named. Rulings are as they stood on these dates; later rulings, the rulebooks and the Rules Archive may differ.
Battle: Move Rikako to the current battlefield. Straighten a card in your army there.
1. If Horiuchi Rikako is at home, bowed, can she use her battle action to move into a battlefield and straighten herself?
2. If Horiuchi Rikako is in the current battle, bowed, can she use her battle action to straighten herself?
If Horiuchi Rikako is at home, bowed, can she use her battle action to move into a battlefield and straighten herself?
No.
If Horiuchi Rikako is in the current battle, bowed, can she use her battle action to straighten herself?
No.
Lotus rules, pg. 39: "Abilities on a bowed card or Stronghold cannot be used unless their costs or effects will straighten that card or Stronghold." The ability here is conditional. It may straighten the card, or it may not.