Talk:Fire Nation/@comment-67.243.144.238-20120628170804

It's definitely predominantly ancient Chinese in terms of dress and architecture. The argument that it's more Japanese reflects a superficial knowledge of East Asia and confuse Tang/Song dynasty stylistic influences with something it's not. If anything, Kyoshi island resembles Japan more than anything where you can see Kyoshi citizens wearing distinctly Japanese clothing and using weapons like katanas as opposed to that of the Fire Nation where Chinese clothing and weapons such as the double-edged straight sword(jian)and broadsword(dao) can be found.