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, 20 June 2008
Ikoma Asa (Lion Clan • Artisan • Historian • Poet Lion Clan Samurai you own in and out of play have +1 Honor Requirement, +1PH, and a maximum Personal Honor of 5.)
Asa's trait is continuous. While their card is in play, continuous traits apply their effects. While their card is out of play, continuous traits affect the card they are on, and only that card, unless the trait states otherwise.
Does the trait affect your Personalities on the turn that she is flipped up in one of your provinces? Does Asa's trait state that it affects other cards (Lion Clan Samurai you own). or would it need to say "Even if Asa is in face-up in a province"?
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 20 June 2008
Ikoma Asa: Does the trait affect your Personalities on the turn that she is flipped up in one of your provinces?
Only herself.
http://rules.l5r.com/Card_features#Traits: "While their card is out of play, continuous traits affect the card they are on, and only that card, unless the trait states otherwise."