Liquid crystal display device and display device

A liquid crystal display device comprising:

• a first panel configured to display an image;
• a backlight configured to irradiate the first panel with light from a back surface side of the first panel;
• and
• a second panel configured to limit an emission area of the light, wherein
• the second panel includes a plurality of first electrodes and a second electrode provided at a position opposite to the first electrodes with liquid crystal interposed between the first and second electrodes,
• the first electrodes are arranged in a first direction,
• the first electrodes are provided with such respective potentials that a first state and a second state alternately occur in the first direction, the first and second states being states of the liquid crystal,
• the first state is configured to block light,
• the second state is configured to transmit light,
• a first one of the first electrodes that causes the first state has a first width in the first direction,
• a second one of the first electrodes that causes the second state has a second width in the first direction,
• the first width is wider than the second width,
• third ones of the first electrodes cause the second state, fourth ones of the first electrodes cause the first state, each of the fourth ones has the first width, and
• a first pair of the fourth ones, some of the third ones, and a second pair of the fourth ones are arranged in the first direction in the order as listed, none of the first electrodes being disposed between the first pair and the second pair.