Provided is an organic light-emitting device capable of emitting light with high efficiency by incorporating a silyl compound in which a silyl group and an amino group are directly bonded to an anthracene ring particularly into its light-emitting layer. In the organic light-emitting device including: a pair of electrodes composed of an anode and a cathode; and an organic compound layer interposed between the pair of electrodes, wherein the organic compound layer contains the following silyl compound. A layer containing at least one kind of the silyl compound is a light-emitting layer. ##STR00001##