Karate teacher

Usage examples of sensei.

Nicholas gave up the yonkyo but instead of moving into a second immobilization as Kenzo suspected he would, he employed an atemi—a percussive—moving out of the aikido discipline as the sensei already had.

Behind him, Tsutsumu was about to announce himself softly but, seeing the sensei kneeling, unaware, froze his tongue.

He bowed to his sensei, touched the curved rim of the cup to his lips, and drank the intensely bitter beverage.

The sensei looked at him with his hard black eyes that seemed ripped from a hawk's fierce face.

The sensei was asking him questions to which any good pupil must know the answers.

The dojo contained only one woman—a choice of the sensei that was not popular with his pupils though none dared voice their displeasure where he could hear.

Behind the sensei a shadow appeared to move behind the shoji and then a figure emerged.

In a grotesque gesture, the head came forward and down, hanging only by the thin length of skin at the neck, as if the sensei was deep in meditational prayer.

The sensei of this dojo was sitting at the kamiza—the upper seat—of the aikido mat which was made up of a series of tatami of uncovered rice straw padding.

This bit of information had been given to Nicholas—along with a letter of introduction—by Fukashigi, Nicholas' sensei in New York.

Among the students—who, in the tradition of students the world over, had created nicknames for their sensei in order to regain at least a semblance of the control that the ryu took from them—he was known as "the smileless man.

He found he had an overpowering urge to cry out to Akutagawa-san but the acute loss of face involved not only for him but, even more importantly, for Kansatsu, his former sensei who had guided him here, made him bite his lip instead.

The old sensei had increasingly seemed to devote himself to quiet contemplation and the instruction of certain favored pupils, among them the lone female, Suijin.

It had been given over to a master interior architect and then a sensei of gardening in order to create a sanctuary of peaceful contemplation in the smoky madhouse of downtown Tokyo.

They sat on opposite sides of the room with the break in the tatami between them as was customary between host and guest, sensei and pupil, sipping weak tea, leaves that had obviously been used more than once.