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While the Bunten sought to unite the art world, alternative exhibitions continued to be organized, including the Nihon Bijutsuin's Inten, and the Kyoto-based ''[[Shinko bijutsuhin ten]]'' ("Exhibition of New and Old Art", first organized in [[1888]]).
While the Bunten sought to unite the art world, alternative exhibitions continued to be organized, including the Nihon Bijutsuin's Inten, and the Kyoto-based ''[[Shinko bijutsuhin ten]]'' ("Exhibition of New and Old Art", first organized in [[1888]]).
Creators working in ceramics, textiles, lacquer, metal, wood, bamboo, and certain other materials and forms were initially consigned to a "craft" exhibition organized by the [[Ministry of Agriculture, Commerce, and Industry]] and known as the Nôten. This was renamed the Shôkôten in 1925, when the ministries were reorganized and the exhibition began to be organized by the newly re-organized Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Two years later, however, the Teiten (the former Bunten) finally created a division for the display of "craft" works. While some crafts artists regularly display at the Nitten, others do so at the annual Japan Traditional Crafts Exhibition (''Nihon Dentô Kôgeiten''); while in many families or workshops some artists will display at one and some at the other, each individual creator typically defines themselves as associated with one or the other and does not switch between the two or attempt to exhibit at both.<ref>Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, ''Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan'', University of Washington Press (2007), 15.</ref>
Following World War II, in 1946, the Imperial Exhibition (''Teiten'') was renamed the Japan Exhibition (''Nitten''); it continues under this name annually today.
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