Sensei 先生
Japanese word for a teacher and a respectful title for teachers, masters and other experts, used in kinbaku circles for rope teachers such as Yukimura Haruki.
Among the senses Japanese dictionaries list for sensei is “a person born before oneself”, an elder. Its main meaning is a person who teaches scholarship, skills or arts, especially a school teacher or one’s own instructor. It is also a respectful way to address or refer to teachers, doctors, lawmakers and other learned people, often added after a name. Used playfully, it can tease someone instead.
The title carries over into kinbaku. Karada House, writing about Murasaki Haruan, refers to her late teacher as Yukimura Sensei.