To provide a lighting system suitable for illuminating a liquid crystal display or the like, in particular, the lighting system suitable for a front light.

In this lighting system 30, a positive electrode 303 constituted of a transparent electrode is patterned linearly, a luminous layer 311 and an alkaline earth metal layer 307 are laid all over the illumination area in top view, and a reflection electrode layer 308 and a photo-absorbing layer 309 are substantially conformed to the linear pattern of the positive electrode 303. A light emitting part 300 is allowed thereby to be patterned linearly, in particular, the positive electrode 303 is patterned by a photo-process, fine patterning is allowed thereby, and this is used as the front light for a liquid crystal panel 20 to realize the liquid crystal display 10 in which a trouble of bringing visible a linear shadow caused by pattern formation in the light emitting part or the like is hardly generated.