In episode 20 "Elegy of Entrapment, Verse 1," Mugen states that he never knew whom his parents were. ![]() Another reason for the similarity may be because the Ainu of the north and the Ryukyu of the south are from the same cultural and genetic stock before being displaced later by the Yamato Japanese. This appears to be further supported later on by Mugen remarking that he grew up on the same music an Ainu fugitive was playing (though the Ainu man came from the far North, and Mugen came from the far south). His style of clothes suggests he may be of Ainu origin. The exact date of his birth and much of his past is shrouded in mystery. His Japanese is quite rough and "Yanki." He is illiterate until later in the show. ![]() His name means without limitation, as the components of it are the characters for "without" and "limitation." Incidentally, he writes his name using the infinity symbol (∞), a pun on his name, 'Mugen,' which is a homophone of the Japanese word for 'eternity'. Mugen was born in a penal colony on the Ryukyu Islands (most likely Miyako Island since it was a penal colony in the past), which in the Edo period was a separate kingdom with close ties to the Satsuma domain of Japan.
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