An illumination device and display device using it display motion pictures
without a blur and make a light utilizing efficiency of a backlight
improved. An illumination device having a light pipe of a substantially
parallel flat-form sheet, whose one surface is an outgoing light surface
and a light source unit is placed at one side and both side edges, is
equipped with a light axis of lights after having entered the light pipe
from the light source unit being unparallel to the outgoing light surface
of the light pipe, and a reflection body unit consisting of plural unit
reflection bodies divided into m in a vertical direction of the light
source unit at an opposite side surface of the outgoing light surface of
the light pipe, wherein the reflection body unit can contact and separate
from the opposite side surface the outgoing light surface of the light
pipe for every unit reflection bodies.