Provision of a novel
platinum complex which is useful as a material for a light-emitting device of good
light emission characteristic and
light emission efficiency, and a novel light-emitting material that may be utilized in various fields. A
platinum complex represented by the following general formula (1): (in which two rings of ring A, ring B, ring C, and ring D represent
nitrogen-containing heterocyclic rings which may have a
substituent and the remaining two rings of them represent
aryl rings or hetero
aryl rings which may have a
substituent, the ring A and the ring B, the ring A and the ring C or / and the ring B and the rind D may form condensed rings. Two of X1, X2, X3, and X4 represent
nitrogen atoms coordination bonded to a
platinum atom and the remaining two of them represent carbon atoms or
nitrogen atoms. Q1, Q2, and Q3 each represents a bond,
oxygen atom,
sulfur atom or bivalent group, two of Z1, Z2, Z3, and Z4 represent coordination bonds, and the remaining two of them represent covalent bonds,
oxygen atoms or
sulfur atoms), and a light-emitting device containing the
platinum complex.