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At first glance, it looks like a piece of historical whimsy: a sequential, pictorial account of rats scurrying about in preparation for a wedding feast.
The scroll, historian Eric Rath explained, is populated by specialist rodent chefs - 'the mediaeval Japanese equivalent of the rat in the film Ratatouille'.
A scroll depicting a rat wedding banquet provides important insight about cooking in medieval Japan
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