To provide a thermal head and heat treatment equipment arranged such that a heat treatment article can be heat treated instantaneously while reducing energy consumption.

In a holding structure 3, a light absorbing/heat generating body 4 composed of carbon and generating heat by absorbing light energy is arranged in contact with a heat treatment article 1 or on the side opposite to the heat treatment article 1. The light absorbing/heat generating body 4 is irradiated with light and the temperature is raised instantaneously.