Right? So like in the late 1700's, in the "Rococo" period, we had lighting like this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Palazzo_...

then by the time we get to the "Edo" period of the 1600's, it got reduced to almost bare pragmatism, along the lines of something very similar to this modern reproduction:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Toshima_House07s...