If you control imperial favor, is it considered controlling an imperial card.

Figured it was gonna come up at some time

Seppun Ishikawa refers to cards with the Imperial trait (as shown by the bold italics). The Imperial Favor doesn't have any trait, so it doesn't count.

Imperial Favor isn't a card in play and had no traits. So the above is correct, No it doesn't work with Seppun

Other Question regarding the favor, 'Ride them down says' :
'Action: During a conflict, discard the Imperial favor - set the base strength of the attacked province to 1'

Can i do this without holding the favor?

2 minutes ago, Chilitoke said:

Other Question regarding the favor, 'Ride them down says' :
'Action: During a conflict, discard the Imperial favor - set the base strength of the attacked province to 1'

Can i do this without holding the favor?

No, because discarding the favor is a cost of this action. You can't ignore stuff before a dash.

2 hours ago, Khudzlin said:

No, because discarding the favor is a cost of this action. You can't ignore stuff before a dash.

Thanks for the clarification.