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.
A player, 25 June 2007
Specifically, Hida Kozan / Hida Tsuburu's reactions.
If they
1)are removed from the discard pile
2)overlay a personality in the current battle
3)re-enter play in the attacking or defending army
before the end of the combat segment they were destroyed in, do they still contribute force to their owner's army?
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 25 June 2007
Specifically, Hida Kozan / Hida Tsuburu's reactions.
If they
1)are removed from the discard pile
2)overlay a personality in the current battle
3)re-enter play in the attacking or defending army
before the end of the combat segment they were destroyed in, do they still contribute force to their owner's army?
The question to ask is, "Are they dead?", not, "Did they die?" If yes, they contribute force. If not, they don't.