Born in Hamamatsu, a small industrial city located between Tokyo and Osaka, Ōshiro studied design at Hamamatsu Technical School where he was later to teach, as he did at Hamamatsu First High School for 15 years. He exhibited with, and was a member of, Dōdosha (a sosaku-hanga society founded in 1929) and Nihon Hanga Kyōkai (Japan Print Association) and was a member of Sosaku-Hanga Kyōkai founded in Osaka around 1976. By 1953 he had moved to Kyoto where he established himself as a dyeing and weaving designer. While only a minor figure in sōsaku hanga circles, both the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Carnegie Museum of Art hold one of his prints in their collections. - Guide to Modern Japanese Prints, Helen Merritt and Nanako Yamada, 1992