Oof... Was gonna drop this, but then I saw the tag. Well, as a hyper fan of Samcham, I couldn't let this tag go without some info.
Regardless of the moral outrage this causes in the modern age or what your personal feelings may be, Fuu as a 15 year old, is not considered a child in her time period of the Tokugawa era. And, quite frankly, the anime creators explicitly do not care about the modern moral view either, whether because of the artistic messages they were trying to send, or simply because Japanese culture does not care in general, Even today, regardless how we may feel about it, anime even set in modern times often makes 15 an age of beauty.
If you want a whole entire cultural/historical post concerning Fuu's age and being a "woman" in the Tokugawa Era: Here's an essay.
In the anime, Fuu is called a woman by Umanousuke rather than child. Men like Hishikawa make her a nude model and no one batted an eye. Nagamitsu wanted to make her the "harem of his heart" and no one found it weird. She was thrown in a brothel and a man bought her. And I could go on, and on and on.
As for Mugen himself and his relationship with Fuu, the creators themselves don't care about the 4/5 year age gap, nor that Fuu would be considered a minor in modern context. To them, it is not weird or morally wrong. The Kiribi and the "wife" thing barely even scratches the surface on the intentional writing for a subtle romance...
Interviews with Ayako Kawasumi and Ginpei Sato.
Interview with Shinichiro Watanabe.
Here is an essay to how plotwise, scenewise and symbolically, Mugen and Fuu are completely identical to Jin and Shino, which was a blatantly canon love story.
Here is some stuff in both symbolism and dialogue that make Sara episodes make it blatant rather than subtle...
Here is the symbolic meaning to Mugen's triangle and how he references Akira Kurosawa films and Toshiro Mifune's roles in said movies. (Regardless how you feel about Mugen and Fuu, this one might just interest you in general, if you are a fan of film or samurai history.)
Here is an essay, to the symbolic parallels of Shinto God Susanoo-no Mikoto and Mugen. Both are tales of an uncouth, rude, and outcasted character, whose tale of redemption is triggered by saving a young damsel in distress. (Susanoo marries said girl and thus is able to reconcile with his rival Amaterasu as a result.)
In the videogame he literally KISSES a Fuu lookalike YOUNGER than her...so age 14? Um???? He admits to liking her, and her name is...Yuu. Fuu verbally admits to being jealous. Wish I was making this shit up, but I'm not. Even I scratched my head at this one. If you want a full post about it with full context, here ya go.
So...yeah... It's... Well... It's complicated, because this anime as a whole and the literal point of the relationship of Mugen and Fuu really causes some discomfort for a lot of people because of a modern/western view of it. But the creators literally didn't take Fuu's age into account whatsoever when they wrote Mugen and Fuu's relationship.
TLDR: It's totally fine if you don't like the idea of the Mugen and Fuu romance whether for shipping preference or moral concerns with her age. But, like the Kiribi scene in episode 10, in which Mugen calls Fuu his wife, a subtle romance is what the creators intended, and there's literal piles of evidence to support that. So if you're upset in any way, please don't be mad at shippers. Be mad at the creators themselves for writing it in.
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