OTOMO no Yakamochi is often identified as the kajin involved in the compilation of "Manyoshu" (Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves), but the Otomo clan had been a military family since the Yamato Dynasty and he earned his place in history as a politician just as his grandfather Yasumaro and father Tabito had done before him.
『万葉集』の編纂に関わる歌人として取り上げられることが多いが、大伴氏は大和朝廷以来の武門の家であり、祖父安麻呂、父旅人と同じく政治家として歴史に名を残す。