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This paper examines how the physiological changes that occur to emotional actors are expressed in metaphor in expressions using emotions using "chest" in literary works, and how the chest and emotions are recognized from the perspective of cognitive linguistics. This study focused on the Russo-Japanese War, the Sino-Japanese War, the Pacific War, and post-war literature, and compared the metaphors used in these four periods. In the diachronic analysis, there were more expressions with metaphor than metonymy, along with the flow of the times. In terms of vocabulary, a shift of the words used was seen rather than an increase in the number of words used with the times. The common point is that when expressing negative emotions, the metaphor of “to be attacked by emotions” was often used. Moreover, expressions using the chest as a container or space were seen in all periods, and it was understood that it had the concept where “the chest is a container and a place of emotions.”