Ōtomo no Otomaro (大伴 弟麻呂 or 大伴 乙麻呂, 731 – July 14, 809) was a Japanese general of the Nara period and of the early Heian period. He was the first to hold...

Kuronushi (9th century), poet Ōtomo no Otomaro (731–809), samurai Ōtomo no Sakanoue no Iratsume (c. 700–750), poet Ōtomo Sōrin (1530–1587), daimyō who...

in exile. The Nara period saw the appointment of the first shōgun, Ōtomo no Otomaro by Emperor Kammu in 794 CE. The shōgun was the military dictator of...

of the East") in 789 which is less important than Sei-i Taishōgun. Ōtomo no Otomaro was the first person who was granted the title of Seii Taishōgun (征夷大将軍...

title of Sei-i Taishōgun (征夷大将軍). The first to receive this title was Ōtomo no Otomaro.[citation needed] It is said that the famous Tanabata festivals and...

Muslim caliph (b. 763) March 26 – Ludger, Frisian missionary July 14 – Ōtomo no Otomaro, Japanese general and Shōgun (b. 731) Abbas ibn al-Ahnaf, Muslim poet...

v t e Sei-i Taishōgun Heian period Ōtomo no Otomaro Sakanoue no Tamuramaro Fun'ya no Watamaro Fujiwara no Tadabumi Minamoto no Yoshinaka Kamakura shogunate...

since some sources consider Tajihi no Agatamori the first, others say Ōtomo no Otomaro, other sources assure that the first was Sakanoue no Tamuramaro, while...

v t e Sei-i Taishōgun Heian period Ōtomo no Otomaro Sakanoue no Tamuramaro Fun'ya no Watamaro Fujiwara no Tadabumi Minamoto no Yoshinaka Kamakura shogunate...

returned in 739 746- Shōmu Isonokami no Otomaro (石上乙麻呂) Xuanzong cancelled 750-753 Kōken Fujiwara no Kiyokawa (藤原清河) Ōtomo no Komaro (大伴古麻呂) Kibi no Makibi (吉備真備)...