To improve the color purity and to display an image of high quality by preventing unnecessary color lights other than a specific color light from being made incident.

A light shield plate 23 provided as a light divergence angle limiting device limits the angle of divergence of at least one of multiple color lights while taking light emission characteristics of a light source 11 into consideration so that color lights (e.g. B light and G light) different from the specific color light (e.g. R light) are not made incident on pixels arranged to correspond to the specific color. Thus, unnecessary lights other than the specific color light are made not to impinge on the pixels made to correspond to the specific color light.