A rear projection screen for use in a rear projection display apparatus contains a Fresnel lens sheet, a horizontal lenticular lens sheet capable of horizontally refracting the incident light, and a vertical lenticular lens sheet capable of vertically refracting the incident light, in this order from the incident side of the incident light, in which the lens center of the Fresnel lens sheet is arranged upward with respect to the mechanical center of the screen, and, in relation to this arrangement, black stripes of the vertical lenticular lens sheet are shifted with respect to the vertical lenticular lens.