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Protective layer ( 26 ) of front plate ( 20 ) of a plasma display panel has base protective layer ( 26 a ) and particle layer ( 26 b ). Base protective layer ( 26 a ) is formed of a thin film of metal oxide containing at least one of magnesium oxide, strontium oxide, calcium oxide, and barium oxide. Particle layer ( 26 b ) is formed by sticking, to base protective layer ( 26 a ), single crystal particles ( 27 ) of magnesium oxide having an NaCl crystal structure that is surrounded by a specified two-type orientation face formed of ( 100 ) face and ( 111 ) face or a specified three-type orientation face formed of ( 100 ) face, ( 110 ) face, and ( 111 ) face. The panel driving circuit drives the panel while temporally disposing the subfields so that the luminance weight monotonically decreases from a subfield in which an all-cell initializing operation is performed to the subfield immediately before the subfield in which its next all-cell initializing operation is performed. |