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sensei

n. 1 A martial arts instructor. Sensei of martial arts usually live and/or work at a dojo where they instruct their apprentices. A live-in apprentice is also called uchi-deshi. 2 (context colloquial English) a Japanese (language) teacher.

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Sensei

is a Japanese honorific and word that is literally translated as "person born before another". In general usage, it is used, with proper form, after a person's name, and means "teacher", and the word is used as a title to refer to or address teachers, professors, professionals such as lawyers, CPA, doctors, politicians, clergymen, and other figures of authority. The word is also used to show respect to someone who has achieved a certain level of mastery in an art form or some other skill: accomplished novelists, musicians, artists and martial artists, for example, are addressed in this way.

Sensei (DC Comics)

The Sensei, (Buzurg: noble aged man) is a fictional character in DC Comics' shared universe, the DC Universe. He is a martial artist and sensei created by writer-artist Neal Adams as a villain to fight the hero Batman.

Sensei (band)

Sensei was a five piece, melodic, rock band from Jacksonville, Florida.

Sensei (disambiguation)

Sensei is the title of a teacher (Japan).

Sensei may also refer to:

  • Sensei (band), melodic rock band from Jacksonville, Florida
  • Sensei (DC Comics), fictional character in the DC Comics universe
  • Sensei (First Comics), a four-issue limited series published in 1989
  • O-Sensei (comics), fictional character in the DC Comics universe
  • Sensei's Library, website about the game of Go
  • Kinpachi-sensei, a Japanese dorama
  • Sensei robotic catheter system, a medical device in interventional cardiology
  • The Sensei, an independent feature film directed by Diana Lee Inosanto
Sensei (First Comics)

Sensei is a four-issue limited series published by First Comics from March 1989 to August 1989. Created by writer Roger Salick and artist Val Mayerik, it was a mix of science fiction and samurai culture as well as the second in First's First Fiction line of prestige-format mini-series. Cover illustrations for the series were produced by KevinDavies 1.

Sensei (wrestler)

Sensei (born September 16, 1978) is a Mexican Luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler, currently working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). He previously worked for International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) as Fantasy where he won several titles. Sensei's real name is not a matter of public record, as is often the case with masked wrestlers in Mexico where their private lives are kept a secret from the wrestling fans.

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.