Provided is an organic light emitting device capable of emitting light with high efficiency by incorporating a silyl compound in which a silyl group is directly bonded to an anthracene ring particularly into its light emitting layer. In the organic light emitting device including: a pair of electrodes formed of an anode and a cathode, at least one of which being transparent or semi-transparent; and one or more layers containing an organic compound layer interposed between the pair of electrodes, at least one of the layer containing the organic compound contains the following silyl compound, and a layer containing at least one kind of the silyl compound is a light emitting layer