The present invention provides a liquid crystal display appliance in which portions of a liquid crystal display panel over luminescent lamps are not seen extraordinarily brighter and brightness of the liquid crystal display panel does not lower significantly at portions in the vicinity of the vertical direction edge of the liquid crystal display panel if a lighting system becomes thinner than 20 mm. This liquid crystal display appliance comprises a lighting system, in which a distance D between light reflector sheet 5 and a light diffuser plate 11 is between 7 and 13 mm, the distance D and an interval p between 2 adjacent luminescent lamps satisfy an inequality, p≦1.34×D+9, and the distance D and a length e between a boundary between an upper edge surface 6a and an inclined surface 5b of the light diffuser plate 11 and a nearest luminescent lamp from the boundary satisfy another inequality, e≦1.6×D+4.