Background
Masunosuke Odagiri was born in 1868. He was the eldest son of Morinori, Confucian scholar of the Yonezawa Clan (Yamagata Prefecture).
Masunosuke Odagiri was born in 1868. He was the eldest son of Morinori, Confucian scholar of the Yonezawa Clan (Yamagata Prefecture).
He studied Chinese at the Tokyo Foreign Language School.
Masunosuke Odagiri served in San Francisco and New York as a Foreign Office secretary. He was appointed consul at Hangzhou in China (1896) and consul-general in Shanghai (1902). He became a director of the Yokohama Specie Bank.