Sensei

From L5r: Legend of the Five Rings

Sensei is a generic term for "master", "teacher" or "doctor". It can be used to refer to any authority figure, such as school teacher, professor, priest, lawyer, or politician. It can be used on both genders.

[edit] Sensei & Dojo

Sensei of martial arts usually live and or work at a dojo. They are a master of the school's technique and instruct the students of that school. Students can have very little contact with the sensei of their school, but would definately know who the sensei is and would have met him at least a handful of times. (Samurai p. 14)

[edit] Honorifics

Sensei is most commonly used in a school for a teacher, by both students and teachers, and is considered a more friendly term than calling him or her by the family name plus sensei (as an honorific). A male teacher Isawa Tanaka would initially be called "Tanaka-sensei" by his students and after a while, students switch to simply "Sensei" if that is what Tanaka-sensei would like to be called. Fellow teachers may call each other sensei after becoming familiar, but when they consider each other friends, they usually start calling each other by the family name alone, the first name, or by a nickname.

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