* Ōmuraji ( Great Deity chieftain ): Ōtomo Kanamura Maro, also known as Nakatomi no Kanamura.

* Empress: Ōtomo no Koteko, also known as Otehime

In the end, he was succeeded by his son, Prince Ōtomo, also known as Emperor Kōbun, then by Tenji's brother Prince Ōama, also known as Emperor Temmu.

Prince Ōtomo ( Ōtomo-shinnō ) was the favorite son of Emperor Tenji ; and he was also the first to be accorded the title of Daijō-daijin.

The fourth period spans 730 – 760 and includes the work of the last great poet of this collection, the compiler Ōtomo no Yakamochi himself, who not only wrote many original poems but also edited, updated and refashioned an unknown number of ancient poems.

In 1981, Ōtomo began improvising in the first Japanese house club in Tokyo ( Jazu Kissa ), performing on guitar and also using tapes and synthesizer devices, like Roland drum machines.

Ōtomo has also released duo albums with early experimental turntablist Christian Marclay ( Moving Parts, 2000 ) and another Japanese electronic musician, Nobukazu Takemura ( Turntables + Computers, 2003 ).

Ōtomo was also part of an Australian / Japanese industrial outfit called Peril.

In the late 6th century, Ōtomo no Koteko, also known as Otehime, came to this area.

* Ōtomo Sōrin ( 大友 宗麟 ) ( 1530 – 1587 ), also known as Fujiwara no Yoshishige ( 藤原 義鎮 ) and Ōtomo Yoshishige ( 大友 義鎮 ).

In Japan, a more consistent lineup of the group, using the name Ōtomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet, has released ONJQ LIVE ( 2002 ), a collaboration with Tatsuya Oe ( Captain Funk ) entitled ONJQ + OE ( 2003 ), and Tails Out ( 2003 ).

Ōtomo has worked with Jon Rose, Yamatsuka Eye of Boredoms ( as MC Hellshit & DJ Carhouse ), Butch Morris, Alfred Harth, Voice Crack, Keith Rowe, Peter Rehberg, Toshimaru Nakamura, Bill Laswell, David Sylvian, Fennesz, Derek Bailey, Sachiko M, Hoppy Kamiyama, Mats Gustafsson, The Thing, John Zorn, Hikashu, Philip Jeck, Martin Tétreault, Sabuhiro Toyozumi, Thermo and poire z.

* Ryūzaburō Ōtomo as: The first demon to be defeated, he is an incredibly large man who has the ability to turn his skin as hard as rock and fights with a staff with large sword blades on each end.

Called FEN ( Far East Network ), the quartet comprises Ōtomo, Yuen Chee Wai ( Singapore ), Ryu Hankil ( South Korea ) and Yan Jun ( China ).

Since Ōtomo had weak political support from his maternal relatives, the general wisdom of the time held that it was not a good idea for him to ascend to the throne, yet Tenji was obsessed with the idea.

When Emperor Buretsu died with no apparent heir, it was Ōtomo no Kanamura who recommended Emperor Keitai, a very distant imperial relative who resided in Koshi Province, as the new monarch.

At the end of the 1990s he founded Ōtomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Ensemble, a group that played more traditional jazz ( albeit with added sine waves from Sachiko M and noisy passages ), which released Flutter and Dreams on the Tzadik label.

In 2003, Ōtomo worked with Bill Laswell and Yasuhiro Yoshigaki to record a four song LP Soup.

In 2006, Ōtomo and Laswell again teamed up this time with Tatsuya Yoshida to release Episome.

The earliest renga recorded is in the Man ' yōshū, where Ōtomo no Yakamochi and a made and exchanged poems with sound unit counts (" on ") of 5-7-5 and 7-7.

Years later at 23 years old, he is working for a second rate newspaper and with permission leaves to go back to Ōtomo City to search for the legendary figure, Skull Man who by rumors had recently killed an actress.

As the Ōtomo were one of the major clans of Kyūshū, along with the Shōni and the Shimazu, they had a central role in organizing efforts against the Mongol invasions of Japan in 1274 and 1281.

A powerful clan throughout the Sengoku period ( 1467-1573 ), the Ōtomo are especially notable as one of the first clans to make contact with Europeans, and to establish a trade relationship with them.

The Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier arrived in Japan in 1549, and soon afterwards met with Ōtomo Sōrin, shugo of Bungo and Buzen provinces, who would later be described by Xavier as a " king " and convert to Roman Catholicism in 1578.

Ōtomo was eager to secure for his clan further trade and contact with the Portuguese, seeing the technological and, more importantly perhaps, economic benefits that could be derived.

In 1552, emissaries from the Ōtomo clan traveled to Goa with Xavier, to meet with the Portuguese Governor of India.

The idea of sending a Japanese embassy to Europe was originally conceived by the Jesuit Alessandro Valignano, and sponsored by the three Kirishitan daimyos Ōmura Sumitada ( 1532 – 1587 ), Ōtomo Sōrin ( 1530 – 1587 ) and Arima Harunobu ( 1567 – 1612 ).

The compiler, or the last in a series of compilers, is today widely believed to be Ōtomo no Yakamochi, although numerous other theories have been proposed.

Through this, Munakata, Onga and Kurate were protected from invasion by other daimyos such as Tachibana Dōsetsu and the Ōtomo clan.

There are strong grounds for believing that Ōtomo no Yakamochi was the final editor but some documents claim further editing was done in the later period by other poets including Sugawara no Michizane.

Xavier and other Jesuit missionaries would return to Kyūshū, traveling and proselytizing ; the Ōtomo were always well-disposed towards them, and they saw some success in Bungo as a result, converting many Japanese to Christianity.

At that time, many prominent gokenin, including the Mori clan ( 1221 ) and the Ōtomo clan, moved from the east to the west.

Ōtomo studied at the Meiji University from 1979, where he studied ethnomusicology, concentrating on the Japanese pop music of World War II and the development of musical instruments during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

* Ōtomo clan ( 大伴氏 )-descended from Michi-omi no Mikoto companion in arms of Emperor Jimmu ; no direct relation to the immigrant Ōtomo clan ( 大友氏 ) or feudal Ōtomo clan ( 大友氏 ); famous for Ōtomo no Yakamochi.

* Ōtomo clan ( 大友氏 )-descended from Chinese immigrants ; no direct relation to the native Ōtomo clan ( 大伴氏 ) or feudal Ōtomo clan ( 大友氏 ).

* Ōtomo clan ( 大友氏 )-descended from Fujiwara Hokke ; no direct relation to the ancient Ōtomo clan ( 大友氏 ) or Ōtomo clan ( 大伴氏 ); famous for Ōtomo Sōrin.

* Tachibana clan ( 立花氏 )-cadet branch of Ōtomo clan, descended from Ōtomo Yoshinao ; no direct relation to the ancient Tachibana clan ( 橘氏 ); famous for Tachibana Ginchiyo and her husband Tachibana Muneshige.

File: Sanjūrokkasen-gaku-5-Kanō Tan ’ yū-Chūnagon Yakamochi. jpg | Framed imaginary portrait of the 8th century poet Ōtomo no Yakamochi from a series of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals, Kanō Tan ' yū, 1648

The Ōtomo clan ( 大友氏 ) was a Japanese clan whose power stretched from the Kamakura period through the Sengoku period, spanning over 400 years.

By tradition the muraji clans claimed descent from mythological gods ( 神別氏族, shinbetsu shizoku ) and included such clans as the Ōtomo ( 大伴 ), the Nakatomi ( 中臣 ), the Mononobe ( 物部 ) and the Inbe ( 忌部 ).

Also included were heirs to lords whose domains were confiscated ( for example, Asano Daigaku, the brother of Asano Naganori ), local power figures in remote parts of the country who never became daimyo ; and the families of Kamakura Period and Muromachi Period Shugo ( Governors ): some of these include the Akamatsu, Besshō ( branch of the Akamatsu ), Hōjō, Hatakeyama, Kanamori, Imagawa, Mogami, Nagai, Oda, Ōtomo, Takeda, Toki, Takenaka ( branch of the Toki ), Takigawa, Tsutsui, and Yamana families.