Is Tsukamoto Mariko dating TK protege Ishida Shota?

Bunshun is reporting that model Tsukamoto Mariko and musician/composer Ishizaka Shota are dating.

The 43-year-old married/full-time housewife of two young children passed the AKB48 audition for older adults back in 2014 and became an AKB48 member for four months.  The audition was a collaboration between AKB48 and Ezaki Glico for their 2014 Papico spring campaign.

Ishizaka is a protege of Komuro Tetsuya and a former member of the digital rock group, Purple Days and his father was a staff member of Komuro’s old group, TM NETWORK and serves as a director of the office of TM NETWORK member Utsunomiya Takashi.

According to the article, Ishizaka introduced Tsukamoto to Komuro Tetsuya and Utsunomiya Takashi at a Shabu shabu restaurant in Setagaya.

Bunshun took photos of the two holding hands and were out on a date in Yokohama.

It is not known if Tsukamoto and her husband are divorced.