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 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.

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.

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

Prince Ōtomo was only given his posthumous title and name in 1870.

For centuries, the hapless Prince Ōtomo was not considered to have been a part of the traditional order of succession.

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.

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

As a 17-year-old teenager, he discovered comic books, and became a fan of creators such as John Byrne, Jack Kirby, Frank Miller and George Pérez ( as well as the writing of Alan Moore ), but was especially drawn to the more atypical art of Michael Golden and Katsuhiro Ōtomo, creator of the manga Akira.

The first to receive this title was Ōtomo no Otomaro.

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.

By trying to negotiate a peace between such well known daimyo as Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin, Shimazu Takahisa, Ōtomo Yoshishige, Mōri Motonari, and Amago Haruhisa, the shogun's authority was again recognized by various daimyo.

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

* 1959 – Yoshihide Ōtomo, Japanese musician and composer ( Ground Zero and Filament )

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

Several seiyū ( Japanese voice actors ) played roles in the TV Tokyo edition of the Japanese dub, such as Kōichi Yamadera ( Cyclops ), Shinobu Adachi ( Jean Grey ), Rihoko Yoshida ( Storm ), Akiko Hiramatsu ( Jubilee ), Masashi Ebara ( Wolverine ), Norio Wakamoto ( Mr. Sinister ), Yūko Kobayashi ( Rogue ), Yoshito Yasuhara ( Gambit ), Ayako Shirashi ( Mystique ), Ryūzaburō Ōtomo ( Magneto ), Rokurō Naya ( Professor X ), and Mitsuru Ogata ( Morph ).

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.

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 ).

The Tenshō embassy ( Japanese: 天正の使節, named after the Tenshō Era in which the embassy took place ) was an embassy sent by the Japanese Christian Lord Ōtomo Sōrin to the Pope and the kings of Europe in 1582.

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 ).

was a Japanese poet, best known as the father of Ōtomo no Yakamochi, who contributed to compiling the Man ' yōshū alongside his father.

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.

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.

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.

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 ).