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I will be off the grid for a few days so I figure I better leave you with the answers.
The Japanese Shogun clans are as mentioned Tokugawa, the last one, Ashikaga, the middle one. And then Stichawl mentioned Kamakura. The clan holding that Shogunate was Minamoto (not Yamamoto, sorry) These are usually the three clans associated with the office of Shogun. Now it becomes a little trickier, there is a reason I asked for five. The Minamoto clan actually only had three Shogun in Kamakura, the rest came from the Hojo clan. Not many people, not even Japanese, think of that. They all assumed the name of Minamoto when taking office, but several of them were just young boys. In other words the Minamoto Shogun was very much akin to the emperor, just a wee puppet. So that is four clans. The fifth is Oomoto, that is actually the first to hold the office of Seii-Taishogun, and it dates back to the Nara period (7th century). Hence, Oomoto was a general serving under the emperor, but we tend to think of a Shogun as the actual dictator of Japan, which is true for the others, hence we forget its origin.
As some of you have already figured out, the answer to the second question is
50 Shades of Grey
Shall we let Stichawl take it away?
I thought someone might figure it from counting the codes.
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