ato-in 　後印

KEY WORD :　art history / paintings

Lit. later seal. An artist's seal placed posthumously on a painting or calligraphy, sometimes by a well-meaning person related to the artist, meant to authenticate his/her unsigned work. More commonly, an ato-in was added by an unscrupulous person to camouflage the seal of a lesser artist after erasing the original seal.

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