Elderly martial arts master Elderly martial arts master The elderly martial arts master is a mentor/teacher stock character in fiction, especially "Wuxia", "Chanbara", and other martial arts films. Typically an East Asian male, he is a near-invincible master of the martial arts, despite being advanced in age and presumably having a decrease in physical strength. Often he possesses the rank of Sensei (or teacher) and is referred to as such by his student. The elderly master most often teaches either generic kung fu or an exotic style specific to the fictional period (see List of fictional martial arts). During the films, the master often
Dō (martial arts) and is pronounced identically with its Japanese cognate as Dō. Dō (martial arts) Dō is the "go-on" vocalization of the Japanese "kanji" 道, corresponding to Mandarin Chinese (pinyin) "dào", meaning "way", with connotations of "philosophy, doctrine" (see Tao). In Asian martial arts, the word has been widely adopted as the term for a "school" or "discipline", especially in "Old School" (koryū- 古流) lineages of Japanese martial arts, such as the Kashima Shin-ryū (鹿島神流), although its use in the greater martial arts community has become much more widespread as a synonym of jutsu 術 "technique, method". The word "道" is used