The Soga clan provided the highest minister in the government, while the Ōtomo and Mononobe clans provided the second highest ministers.

After Kazuraki declined in the late 5th century, the Ōtomo clan temporarily took its place.

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

His family were members of the aristocratic Saeki family, a branch of the ancient Ōtomo clan.

During this time, the Saeki-Ōtomo clan suffered government persecution due to allegations that the clan chief, Ōtomo Yakamochi, was responsible for the assassination of his rival Fujiwara Tanetsugu.

In his late years, he crushed the Ōtomo clan of Bungo province.

He was born into the prestigious Ōtomo clan ; his grandfather was Ōtomo no Amaro and his father was Ōtomo no Tabito.

The Ōtomo clan were warriors and bureaucrats in the Yamato Court, and Yakamochi served as a in several provinces.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ōtomo also has a quartet with three other musicians from different parts of Asia.

* 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

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

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 ).

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.

* 1433 – Ōtomo rebells ; Hieizan monks rebel.

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.

* 1433: Ōtomo rebells ; Hieizan monks rebel.

Mancio Itō was chosen to act as a spokesman for the group dispatched by Ōtomo Sōrin, who was daimyō of the Bungo Province on Kyūshū and a close relative of Mancio's father ; Shurinosuke Itō.

* Ryūzaburō Ōtomo: Noppera-bō ( Voice ; 39 )

Alongside the Shōni clan, whose hereditary clan heads now regularly operated under Sō clan guidance, the Sō fought the Ōuchi numerous times across the Sengoku period ( 1467-1600 ), and later the Mōri and Ōtomo clans as well ; the clan lost and regained their territory in Chikuzen province on Kyūshū many times over the course of the period.

Ōtomo warriors fought alongside those of Ashikaga Takauji and enabled him to win a number of key battles, including the battle of Sanoyama ; this helped to ensure them powerful government positions in the new shogunate.

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.

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

* Empress: Ōtomo no Koteko, also known as Otehime

* Udaijin, Ōtomo no Nagatoko ( 大伴長徳 ) (?– 651 ), 649 – 651.

In his lifetime, he was known as Prince Ōtomo ( 大友皇子, Ōtomo no ōji ).

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.

The third period spans 700 – c. 730 and covers the works of such poets as Yamabe no Akahito, Ōtomo no Tabito and Yamanoue no Okura.

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.

Ōtomo no Otomaro became the first Sei-i Taishōgun in history.

The editor of the Man ' yōshū is anonymous, but it is believed that the final editor was Ōtomo no Yakamochi.

Nukata no Ōkimi, Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, Yamabe no Akahito, Yamanoue no Okura, Ōtomo no Tabito and his son Yakamochi were the greatest poets in this anthology.

* June 14 – Ōtomo no Otomaro

* October 5 – Ōtomo no Yakamochi, Japanese statesman and waka poet

The first to receive this title was Ōtomo no Otomaro.

* Ōtomo no Yakamochi ( c. 717 – 785 ): Man ' yōshū

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.

Bronze statue of Ōtomo no Yakamochi at Takaoka Station ( Toyama ) | Takaoka Station, Takaoka, Toyama.