There are no achievements of Makuta during the Tenmu dynasty reported in "Nihonshoki" (Chronicles of Japan) even though he was the leader of the Otomo clan and a very highly ranked person, while many of clans who supported Prince Oama in the Jinshin War were small and medium sized.
壬申の乱で大海人皇子に味方した氏族は中小のものが多く、馬来田は大伴氏を率いる立場にあって非常な高位にあったはずなのだが、『日本書紀』が記す天武朝の事績の中に馬来田の名は現れない。