Hokusai's meticulous pencil and ink studies of everyday objects, knots, textiles, and decorative forms share Foujita's precise linear draftsmanship and bicultural fascination with the beauty of ordinary things. His manga sketchbooks function similarly as investigative studies of form rendered with spare, elegant line work.

Seurat's refined conté crayon studies of objects and figures demonstrate the same devotion to tonal precision and minimalist graphic investigation on paper that characterizes Foujita's still life and decorative object studies. Both artists treated drawing as a serious independent practice rather than mere preparation.

Ingres produced masterfully controlled pencil studies of fabric, decorative objects, and surface textures with the same clean linear economy and attention to material detail seen in Foujita's series. His ability to describe the character of textiles and decorative elements through restrained pencil work closely parallels Foujita's approach.